Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

Andrea Dworkin

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

George W. Bush

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No I did not call in sick to work todayNo I'm not out hanging with my friendsThere's no more wasting timeOn what I think I'm supposed to doMy clock is standing still soI can have my dream life lifeWith the ones I lovePlaying all day longLaying back by the water sideWith nowhere to goAnd the music onI'm working hard for my dream lifeTo be my real lifeAnd that can't be wrongAll I have is this lifeSo I'm making it what I want

Colbie Caillat

Among twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird.

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways o

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Charles Horton Cooley

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

A. J. Liebling

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Margaret Turnbull

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Roger Moore