...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Robert James Waller

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C.S. Lewis

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Andrew Jackson

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

Jerry Saltz

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Wayne Dyer

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

Jimmy Carter

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Sir Winston Churchill

The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone

Anirban Bose