The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Neville Chamberlain

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

Victor Cruz

The facts of science, as they appeared to him, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Napoleon Hill

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Samuel Johnson

You know, I was gonna get sick or I was gonna get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control, was when and how and where that was going to happen.So, I made a rope. And I went up to the summit to hang myself.But, I had to test it, you know. Course. You know me. And the weight of the log snapped the limb of the tree, and I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power. over. nothing.And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing, even though I had no reason to hope, and all my logic said that I would never see this place again.So, that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And then, one day that logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, gave me a sail.And now here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass.And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island.And I know what I have to do now. And, I keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

William Broyles Jr., Cast Away (

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

Paul Robeson

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Charles Horton Cooley

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Plato

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

George Orwell