To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer

Here's to opening and upward...and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.

E.E. Cummings

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

Alfred Tennyson

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

Abigail Adams, In a letter to Jo

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.

Frankfort Moore

There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

Mark Twain

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Thom Yorke

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Sir Winston Churchill