On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem-WSMaugham

There’s an old saying about those who forget history. I don’t remember it, but it’s good. - Stephen Colbert

“You cannot have peace, when you are avoiding life.” —Virginia Wolf (The Hours 2002)

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. - Alfred Hitchcock

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward De Bono

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. - Mark Twain

Stoop and you’ll be stepped on; stand tall and you’ll be shot at. - Carlos A. Urbizo

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. - Don Marquis

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. - Tom Masson

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine