It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was the power and the money and the influence. He was the proprietor of the paper and its editor and sub-editor. He was the Foreign Secretary and the Judge. He was the cricketer; he owned the racehorses and the yachts. He was the director of the company that pays two hundred per cent to its shareholders. He left millions to charities and colleges that were ruled by himself. He suspended the film actress in mid-air. He will decide if the hair on the meat axe is human; he it is who will acquit or convict the murderer, and hang him, or let him go free. With the exception of the fog he seemed to control everything.

Virginia Woolf

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Polly Toynbee

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

Joseph Barbara

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

Yann Martel

Find your place in life, and GROW!

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Leo McKern

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Robert Townsend

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi