Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton, The Lacon,

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Dickens

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

George Eliot

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Kurt Vonnegut

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote

Precept guides, but example draws.

Proverb

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

Carl Sagan

This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

Victor Hugo

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Cal Thomas