We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live...

J.K. Rowling

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

J. Martin Kohe

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Jacques Attali

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

Soleil Moon Frye

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Samuel Johnson

Deny Self for Self's sake

Benjamin Franklin

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Robert J. Mckain

If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Steven Wright