I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin

If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Jean Lorrain

The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.

Proverb

You are wonderfully made. Everything about you is miraculous. Toss aside those self-doubts and criticisms. Celebrate, today, the miracle of you!

Sheri Kaye Hoff

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Jeremy London

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Janis Karpinski

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Will Durant