Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Barbara Kingsolver

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett

The dice of God are always loaded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

Robert Fulghum

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Robert Wilson

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Frank Warren

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

John Geddes

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

Proverb

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Thomas Jefferson