Today

“I knew I was going to get old. I just didn’t think it would happen this fast.”

- John Pollet

"Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”

- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.”

- Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons

“Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.”

- Leila Sales, Past Perfect

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

- Charlotte Brontë

"Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead.”

- Margaret Thatcher

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“It seems to me that a body is only a machine for brains to direct, and those who have no brains themselves are liable to be directed by the brains of others.”

- Scarecrow, The Wizard of Oz

"In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions." [Why Societies Collapse, ABC Local, July 17, 2003]”

- Jared Diamond

"There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”

- Charles Bukowski