To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Baltasar Gracian

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Henry George

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

Rod Kanehl

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

Frank Miller

Repeticio est mater studiorum.

Thomas Aquinas

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Aristotle

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

Sargent Shriver

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Harding Lawrence

I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.

Lady Gaga

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Lynn Harold Hough

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison