The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

George Gurdjieff

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Mae West

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends

Joseph Campbell

There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Walter Lippmann

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Harry S. Truman

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Michael Eisner