A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.

Santosh Kalwar

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Robert Wyatt

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Aristotle

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, P

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

Jane Harman

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

Sandra Cisneros

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Sarah McLachlan

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Carl T. Rowan