To accept reality is only to encourage it.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.