The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, in their separate and individual capacities.

–Abraham Lincoln

  An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

 –Hugo Black, opinion, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 1964

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

 –H. Jackson Brown

If you’re going to care about the fall of the sparrow, you can’t pick and choose who’s going to be the sparrow. It’s everybody.

–Madeline L’Engle

It is important to be confused because out of confusion come questions and out of questions comes clarity.

   —Dr Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, traditional Irish musician and professor, in remarks made at an Irish music concert at Newtown Meeting House, February 3, 2001

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

   —Frank Barron

Some people want to achieve immortality through their work or their descendants. I intend to achieve immortality by not dying.

 –Woody Allen

Here’s a good rule of thumb: Too clever is dumb.

 –Ogden Nash

Just remember, we’re all in this alone.

 –Lily Tomlin

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

   —Russian-born French writer Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857)

I decided to start anew – to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown – no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided no to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

–Georgia O’Keeffe

It takes a long time to become young.

 –Pablo Picasso