The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Ellen Key

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

Ernesto Guevara

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

Mike Huckabee

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Pittacus Lore

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Clarence Clemons

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

William Mcilvanney

Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,and the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem,

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Eliot Spitzer

All great ideas are dangerous.

Oscar Wilde