I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Chester Bennington

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.

American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

Donella Meadows

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

John P. Roche

What magic shall solve us the secret Of beauty that's born for an hour?

Madison Cawein

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

Spalding Gray

We too often forget that not only is there a soul of goodness in things evil, but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Herbert Spencer

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

David Eddings

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Omar Khayyam

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Claude Monet