The past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness

-Pierre Trudeau

He went to bed and slept in an easy grace he hadn't felt in years.  No 6:30 AM alarm clock to startle him into a false and beastly humanity

-Charles Bukowski

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

- E.M. Forster

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

-Sen. Patrick Leahy

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture

Anatole France

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

-Christian Nevell Bovee

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

-Michel de Montaigne

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

-Khalil Gibran

I awoke only to find the rest of the world was still asleep

-Leonardo Da Vinci

In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know, that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

-Carl Sagan