"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

—Yogi Berra

"Diplomacy is to do and say / The nastiest
things in the nicest way."

—Isaac Goldberg, American critic, 1927

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make
friends of them?"

—Abraham Lincoln

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car
in the night?”

—Jack Kerouac, in On the Road, 1957

“English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.”

—Malcolm Bradbury, British author, 1965

“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.”

—O. J. Simpson

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.”

—Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick, first published October 18, 1851

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

—John F. Kennedy, President, in his inaugural address, January, 20 1961

"Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued
dark overnight, with widely scattered light by
morning."

—George Carlin, comedian