The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spenser

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

Mary Oliver

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

Jim DeMint

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of R

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Christopher Hitchens

In a portrait, I

Henri CartierBresson

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

Peter Singer

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Rabindranath Tagore

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.

Kurt Vonnegut