Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm seven years old and an orphan again. All alone, with no adults around to take care of me. It's evening, and the light is fading, and night is pressing in. It's always the same. In the dream I always go back to being seven years old. Software like that you can't exchange once it's contaminated.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

Paul Brunton

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Desmond Tutu

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Theodore Parker

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, No, thank you, to dessert that night. And for what!Another version: Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Edmund Husserl

I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.

George Bernard Shaw

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

Mos Def

Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindly, to speak unpatriotically, if any of us even felt so. Sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglosaxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy. But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said. Their Constitution, such as it may be, was made here, not there. Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions.

Thomas Carlyle

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison