Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Samuel Butler

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Jean Cocteau

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.

Terry Pratchett

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Cary Grant

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is to me the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

Prem Rawat

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Dr. Seuss

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Ralph Charell

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak