The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The American dream is about freedom.

Nancy Pelosi

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Gabriel Heatter

If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

Jane Austen

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

Mary McCarthy

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

William Blake

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons,

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Alice Walker

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Clarence Thomas