Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

Heinrich Suso

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Tom Vilsack

We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue

D.W. (David Wark) Griffith

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Les Brown

The only things that need the protection of men are the things of men, not the things of the spirit.

American Indian Proverb, Crow

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

David Amram

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

John Philpot Curran

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Bruce Barton

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Yoko Ono

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

Adriana Lima

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Gore Vidal