Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Joseph Conrad

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Mich

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

Voltaire

The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word.

Sorin Cerin

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Jack Welch

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Will Rogers

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

Henry Miller

The breathing of the air, The song of the sweet nightingale, The grove and its beauty In the serene night, With the flame that consumes, and gives no pains. ~ 39

John of the Cross