It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.”

C.S. Lewis

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Ronald Reagan

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.

Tom Petty

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

Jodi Picoult

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Arthur C. Clarke

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Garrett Hardin

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Johan Huizinga

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are

Blaise Pascal

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Joshua Chamberlain