The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

Elizabeth Price

Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all thestars directly behind me were now deep red, while those directly aheadwere violet. Rubies lay behind me, amethysts ahead of me.

Olaf Stapledon

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

Jane Austen

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.

Toba Beta

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Oscar Wilde

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

David Brooks

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller