"Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction."

“Confusion is not an ignoble condition”

Source : Brian Friel (2013). “Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.393, Faber & Faber

“You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.”

“A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.”

Source : Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

“Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.”

“I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.”

“I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.”

“People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.”

“My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.”