The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

Billy Graham

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

George McGovern

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Henry David Thoreau

You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.

Derek Walcott

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

Lord Chesterfield

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Fran Drescher

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Mal Pancoast