My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.

Warren Buffett

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Roc

The best is the cheapest.

Benjamin Franklin

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.

Carl Sagan

I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone.

Susie Bright

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Jean Baudrillard

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

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God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Johannes Tauler

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Henri Becquerel