"Great is the guilt of unnecessary war."

~ John Adams

"The hardest lessons are self-taught, the wisdom self-induced...."

~ Charles Champlin

"It is not the rich who are powerful; it is the people who feel themselves free."

~ Jeanne Moreau

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned: it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"To be busy is man’s only happiness."

~ Mark Twain

"Every soul is a circus!"

~ Martha Graham

"All these ideas stacked up in my mind — like planes over an airport, waiting to land."

~ Arthur Kopit

"Nothing’s going on anywhere. That’s something I learned a long time ago. Life is here, where I am, not some place else. I have never suffered from the feeling that I’m missing something. I know verywell that I am not."

~ Sophia Loren

"Unless the fact is that you won the lottery, don’t face facts."

~ Ruth Gordon

"Perhaps if you know you are insane, then you are not insane." ~ Philip K. Dick

"Bush/Orwell in 2005"

~ Bumper sticker from "The Nation"

"Three companies control 25 percent of all the daily news in the world."

~ Phil’s Not So Phunny Phacts

"Politicians & Diapers Need To Be Changed For The Same Reason"

~ Bumper sticker

on Steve Carlson’s car