We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Ilka Chase

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

The original story, whatever it was, was told to those who forgot some details and substituted others. The original is long lost in the restorations. They have had the composer accompanied by a gifted sister, who, the inflexible record shows, died years before the song was written. They have seated him at the prim old spindle-legged mahogany desk in the hall at Federal Hill and had him dash it off in the frenzy of inspiration. Or they have followed him to the rocks of the old spring house, whither they have sent him, pencil in hand, and counted the frowns of agony with which he laboriously set down now a strain of melody and again a phrase of words. They have heard him trying it out with the deep booming bass voice of him who had never more than a weak but sweet light baritone. Every writer of it has himself for the hero and has described it as he would himself have acted it before the grand audience of posterity. These various stories cling about Federal Hill, the outgrowth of the human desire for contact with the vague figures of the past.

Young Ewing Allison, writing abo

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Margaret Sanger

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

John Heywood

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Chuck Barris

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It seemed like forever ago, like we'd had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

John Green

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Jodi Picoult

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 3. You cannot help small men up by tearing big men down. 4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 5. You cannot lift the wage-earner up by pulling the wage-payer down. 6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. 7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. 8. You cannot establish sound social security on borrowed money. 9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a mans initiative and independence. 10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

William J. H. Boetcker, (from hi