Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

Peter Jurasik

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms

Voltaire

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.

Jacques Barzun

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

George McGovern

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

George Montgomery

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Samuel Johnson

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

Richard Trumka

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Graham Greene

The best counselors are the dead.

Proverb

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

B. F. Skinner

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Harry S. Truman

...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson