Wit & Wisdom

“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.”

Author Carlos Fuentes, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

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Cicero, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoted in The Wall Street Journal

“Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”

Comedian Alan King, quoted in the London Telegraph

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in the Canberra, Australia, Times

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

Henry Ford, quoted in the Modesto, Calif., Bee

“It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”

Astronaut Alan Shepard, quoted in the Associated Press