In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; The flowering branches are of themselves, some short, some long #Ryokan

The expertise of America’s geopolitical planners has proven to be, not in the building of nations, but in the demolition of societies @DanSanchezV

The shortest distance between two points is our desire and our unwavering belief @YokoOno

Man's life is interesting primarily when he's failed - I well know. It's a sign that he tried to surpass himself #GeorgesClemenceau

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity #SarahManguso

The chief duty of government is to keep the #peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people #JamesGarfield

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax #RichardFeynman

Act the way you'd like to be & soon you'll be the way you act #LeonardCohen

To have a great idea, have a lot of them #ThomasEdison

The world is changed by your example & not by your opinion @PauloCoelho

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute #security #DwightEisenhower

Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people #OscarWilde

If you use this music properly, it will keep you well. Keep you happy, keep you warm #MarshallAllen

In God we trust, all others must bring data #WEdwardsDeming

Inform me of any liberty I enjoy by virtue of soldiers going to foreign countries, risk own lives, to kill people! #ButlerShaffer

When we engage in a voluntary exchange both sides are better off than they would have been in the absence of the exchange @LewRockwell

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow #AnaisNin

The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem

When God gave Moses the Eighth Commandment - "Thou shalt not steal" - I am sure that He did not mean, "Thou shalt not steal - unless there is a majority vote in the U.S. Congress"