You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Sir Winston Churchill

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

Henry David Thoreau

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

Tadao Ando

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Bible

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai Stevenson

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H. L. Mencken

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Joseph Jefferson

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo DaVinci

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Ernest Hemingway

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about all they did was persist

Thomas Pynchon

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan