Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

William Arthur Ward

It does not really avail us much to get clear definitions. I am for clarity, by all means, but to think that you can reduce a concept to a relatively simple definition, and that you can somehow go somewhere that will be interesting and fruitful, just does not seem to me to be very plausible at the present time. And that is exactly what I used to strive for. I took old Socrates seriously; you search for the definition. You get the essence of the thing, and once you get the essence and the definition that somehow captures that essence, you are home free. That is how you do philosophy. When you read Hegel, you realize how incredibly flexible and supple concepts are, how they take you for a fool when you take them too literally and too tightly, how they are interconnected with one another, how they interplay in ways you really do not understand, how in other words, strangely enough, you really do not understand any part unless, or until, you understand the whole. That is what I learned from these folks. I really think that stress on context is terribly important and enriches one's philosophical approach significantly.http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/lachs_interview.html

John Lachs, Interview with Pat S

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

Kay Ryan

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

Sara Blakely

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Robert E. Speer

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he's got no skills.

Charles Barkley

Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground. It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you havent been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death Calais would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that Haiti is going to be written on my heart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Benjamin Franklin

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Tom Allen

Your tale sir, would cure deafness

William Shakespeare

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber