All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.

Henry David Thoreau

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

Peter Singer

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Barbra Streisand

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Yoko Ono

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

Jack Markell

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge.

George Eliot

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.

G. K. Chesterton

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time.

Henry Rollins