Hiding white lies only causesanxiety and low self- esteem.Melissa Mae Palmer (on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul)

Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Two is the beginning of the end.

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her.