An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

William Jefferson Clinton

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

Albert Schweitzer

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

H. P. Blavatsky

Gently - so have good men taught -Gently, and without grief, the old shall glideInto the new; the eternal flow of things,Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

William Cullen Bryant, An Evenin

O, had I but followed the arts!

William Shakespeare

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Davy Crockett

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

Michael Morpurgo

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Cassandra Clare

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann