The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

David Cronenberg

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

Paul Lynde

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Schell

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua L. Liebman

If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.

Bill Hybels

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

W. H. Auden

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

Abraham Lincoln

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, What was I thinking, breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, What was I learning?

Karen Salmansohn

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

John Langdon