“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick”

        — Mao Tse-Tung

“My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.”

        — Linda Sunshine

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”

        — Alfred Korzybski

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”

        — Navajo Proverb

“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”

        — Voltaire

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

        — Sydney J. Harris

“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

        — Agnes Allen

“Books are the closest thing to real magic I could ever find. How else could sheets of paper transport me to another world?”

        — Brian Rathbone (@BrianRathbone) #

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.”

        — William Faulkner

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”

        — John Quinton

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.”

        — Francis Bacon

“Stand at the brink of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it anymore, draw back a little, and have a cup of tea.”

        — Sophrony Sakharov

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

        — Charles Buxton

“When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.”

        — Otto von Bismarck