I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead (Gabe Kaplan)

I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information.””And?””The most valuable?””People with information,” I suggested (Len Deighton, The Ipcress File)

If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have ‘nothing’ so that I can finally learn how to appreciate ‘everything’ (Craig D. Lounsbrough)

The stars that have most glory have no rest (Samuel Daniel)

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin (Jay Leno)

Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion (Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential)

She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes (Giovannie de Sadeleer)

There’s no shame in honest suffering, my dear (Andrea Cremer, The Conjurer’s Riddle)

Art uses truth and beauty—both of which can be quite ugly, even as that ugliness is transcended—to foster change, growth, love, perception, friendship. Something that doesn’t do that can be great. But I wouldn’t call it art […] – Colin Fleming