To err is human, to forgive divine.   (Alexander Pope)

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.   (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.   (Mary Hirsch)

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.   (Garry Shandling)

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.   (Oscar Wilde)

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?   (William Hart Coleridge)

The palest ink is better than the best memory.   (Chinese Proverb)

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.   (Publilius Syrus)

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.   (John Kenneth Galbraith)

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.   (Edith Wharton)