All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

Source Unknown

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

William Hazlitt

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Christopher Hitchens

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Arthur Erickson

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry Kissinger

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

Kamisese Mara

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Helen Clark

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey