But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

Lemony Snicket

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

William Dunbar

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

William James

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Michael Polanyi

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Paul Wellstone