Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

J. Kindleberger

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Alice Foote MacDougall

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He sighed and opened the black box and took out his rings and slipped them on. Another box held a set of knives and Klatchian steel, their blades darkened with lamp black. Various cunning and intricate devices were taken from velvet bags and dropped into pockets. A couple of long-bladed throwing tlingas were slipped into their sheaths inside his boots. A thin silk line and folding grapnel were wound around his waist, over the chain-mail shirt. A blowpipe was attached to its leather thong and dropped down the back of his cloak; Teppic picked a slim tin container with an assortment of darts, their tips corked and their stems braille-coded for ease of selection in the dark. He winced, checked the blade of his rapier and slung the baldric over his right shoulder, to balance the bag of lead slingshot ammunition. As an afterthought he opened his sock drawer and took a pistol crossbow, a flask of oil, a roll of lockpicks and, after some consideration, a punch dagger, a bag of assorted caltrops and a set of brass knuckles. Teppic picked up his hat and checked it's lining for the coil of cheesewire. He placed it on his head at a jaunty angle, took a last satisfied look at himself in the mirror, turned on his heel and, very slowly, fell over.

Terry Pratchett

'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'

Sir John Mortimer

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Arabic Proverb

I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Discretion is the better part of valour.origin: Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.'

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, P

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

Whoopi Goldberg