As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Ron Chernow

Fear is a great inventor.

Proverb

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,... then they only complicate and encumber life.

Anton Chekhov

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

John Donne

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Leonard Cohen

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

Carter G. Woodson

I'm not smart enough to lie

Ronald Reagan

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Marian Mountain

Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?--Better, unto my thinking, doth it seemTo end it all and let who will survive;To find at last all beauty is but dust;That love and sorrow are the very same;That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;And sense is but the synonym of lust.Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;To set glad lips against the lips of Death--The only thing God gives that comforteth,The only thing we do not find a lie.http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16535/16535-8.txt

Madison Cawein, from The Land of

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Mark Twain

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Publilius Syrus