People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Marcus Aurelius

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We all have to leave this world and we don't know when, so make sure you try and live life...now and then!

Timothy Pina

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,

Gregory Nunn

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.

Thomas Szasz

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.

Elizabeth Bowen

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Richard Milhous Nixon

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld