A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow)
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself. (Arthur W. Radford)
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me. (Saint Augustine)
History's lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them. (David Schoenbrun)
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. (H.L. Mencken)
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. (R. D. Laing)
Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite. (William Blake)
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million. (Eugene V. Debs)
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. (William Henry Hudson)
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Rothschild Parker)
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again. (Judith Viorst)
Poetry the best words in the best order. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. (Victor Hugo)
How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt (Harry S Truman)
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. (Albert Camus)
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. (Jane Austen)
Time is the fire in which we burn. (Gene Roddenberry)