Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.

William T. Davis

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living C

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Zig Ziglar

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

John Updike

Sometimes you want someone to accept our apology so badly. But all that we can do is hope they will, and that we can move on if they don't.

Lolalola

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

Thomas Fuller

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

Caricature is rough truth.

George Meredith

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the or or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.

Christopher Hitchens

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

William Ames

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow