The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Anita Brookner

It's been an amazing year of individual performances.

Steve Kerr

It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies

Abraham Lincoln

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Less is only more where more is no good.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Eric Braeden

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.

David Hume

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.

Bertrand Russell