The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and decoration of those who did nothing.

Anon.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Doris Roberts

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. Proverbs 27:19

Bible

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as if they were afraid to lose their dignity by too much familiarity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

Marguerite Duras

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Jerzy Kosinski

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

C. Wright Mills

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Georges Braque