Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Kurt Vonnegut

So there were two worlds: the perceived world, a dimension of adjectives, equations and brush strokes, a surface dazzling with our efforts to render it, but ultimately bearing only our own reflections; and the impenetrable world, the plumbless dark full of latent particles, the primordial cauldron which, like a mother, gives us our being but is a lifelong riddle.

Bia Lowe

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

John Dryden

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Will Durant

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

Bob Schieffer

Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.

Lenore Wolfe

People create jobs, not the government.

Scott Walker

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie E. Eschenbach

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

William Shakespeare

Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.

Sorin Cerin

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

Curtis Strange