If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Mary McDonnell

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

Alex Chiu

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Jesse Jackson

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

Mo Yan

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

Alan Dershowitz

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Francois Rabelais

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Thomas Carlyle

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

Jim Harrison

Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

Neils Bohr, When asked why he ha

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire