(Italian Proverb)
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
(John Maynard Keynes)
Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
(Evan Dando)
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.
(Scout Cloud Lee)
People don't think me as queer as they did a while ago. Now I'm stopped on the street by people who tell me proudly they've started to walk three miles a day. That's good. We're bipeds, you know, and we were given muscles to use!
(Dr. Paul Dudley White)
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
(Daniel J. Boorstin)
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
(Robert F. Kennedy)
But how were these trails made? According to one writer, ?The deer were first; then the elk followed the deer; the buffalo followed the elk; the Indian followed the buffalo; trappers then; then army officers came along and discovered a pass. '
(Mathilde Edith Holtz and Katharine Isabel Bemis)