A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. – Paul Robeson
You know you’re a skydiver when your friends think it’s funny when you are sleeping to blow a fan in your face and set a beeper off near your ear. – Author Unknown