Philip K. Dick

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Bertolt Brecht

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they
are.

Quarry Worker's Creed

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.

Evan Esar

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

George W. Bush

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Sophocles

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

G. Armour Van Horn

I spend most of my waking hours working with computers. I used to find them fascinating and exciting, but after making them central to almost everything I do, I don't like them much.

HE Martz

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Regina Nadelson

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

Mignon McLaughlin

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Lyman Abbott

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present.