Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

George Saunders

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Imelda Marcos

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Jim Morrison

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Henry Ford

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song.http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/denver.htm

Leonard Cohen, commenting on his

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Socrates

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

David Wilkerson

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright