I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Anita Brookner

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Wayne Dyer

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

William Shakespeare

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Oscar Wilde

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

William Pitt

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock

Ronald Reagan

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

Asa Gray

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

Jon Voight