Normally, in anything I do, I’m fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce (Neil Gaiman)
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.. (Helen Keller)
Never underestimate the influence you have on others (Laurie Buchanan, PhD)
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him? – Martin Luther King Jr.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself (Thomas Mann)
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you (Dale Carnegie)
Prose: words in their best order – poetry: the best words in the best order.
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill but he will do very few things. (George, Lord Halifax)
Judgement comes from experience and great judgement comes from bad experience. (Robert Packwood)
It’s not what I’d want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie. (Neil Gaiman, American Gods)