Choice

Behavior is a choice, even if fantasy and imagination are uncontrollable.

--Camille Paglia

The Impossible

We can
Each of us
Do the impossible
As long as we can convince ourselves
That it has been done before.

--Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower)

Nuance

We don't do nuance well in politics.

--Barack Obama

Adventure

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

--G. K. Chesterton

The Last Time

When you remember something, you don't remember the thing itself--you just remember the last time you remembered it.

--John Barlow

Appear Bright

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

--Anonymous

Good and Happy

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy--I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

--Bertrand Russell

Roswell, N.M.

The Republicans will hit him hard and low in September and portray him as a Muslim opium dealer who infiltrated this country via Roswell, N.M.

--Garrison Keilor

Have Forever

Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have forever?

--Alain de Botton

The Truth

The world desperately needs moral leadership from America, and the foundation for moral leadership is telling the truth.

--John Edwards

Technology 1-2-3

1) Everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal.

2) Anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it.

3) Anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

--Douglas Adams

One By One

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

--Charles Mackay

Pointless

The more the universe is comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

--Steven Weinberg (Nobel laureate physicist at the University of Texas)

Smart Kids

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

--Bill Hicks

Boundless

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

--Frank O'Hara

All Creation

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

--Abraham Lincoln

Slant

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.

--Emily Dickinson

Go Buy

If we all join hands and go buy a new SUV, everything will be all right.

--Robert McTeer (then-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, April 2001)