Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Billy Joel

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice...Though justice be thy plea, consider this,That, in the course of justice, none of usShould see salvation: we do pray for mercy;And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy...

William Shakespeare, The Quality

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp-followers.

Ernest Hemingway

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

William Shatner

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Albert Einstein

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

George Santayana

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Eknath Easwaran