No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Scotty McCreery

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

Jerry Brown

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James Baldwin

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

Dee Remy

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

Mark Twain

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

English Proverb

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Edward Steichen

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Marge Piercy

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Max Planck

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith