I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

Jack Kerouac

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Doug Larson

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

Lewis Mumford

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

John Green

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

Donald Evans

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendt

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Gerald Brenan

Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.

Otto Schuwdrmer

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow