Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
-- Maude Casey
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
-- Oscar Wilde
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
-- Anna Quindlen
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-- Seneca
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
-- Flannery O'Connor
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
-- Walter Mondale
After all, a vacation is not a matter of place or time. We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while. But no amount of travel will give us rest and recreation if we carry our work and worries with us.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder