It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William Ewart Gladstone

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Paul Muldoon

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

John Green

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

Luke Ford

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

Bryant McGill Voice of Reason

Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching.

Proverb

Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in this joyful season. It's the start of a New Year of trials and tribulations, and if everybody that does anything gets caught, it will be mostly trials.

Will Rogers

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

Francis Bacon

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Honore de Balzac

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Doug Coupland