We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epicurus

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

Sorin Cerin

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

English Proverb

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

Bob Woodward

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Francis Bacon

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

James Fenimore Cooper

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Chretien Malesherbes

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero