Five Quotes to Live By

5.    "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."-Mark Twain (1866)

4.    "The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."-Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged (1957), US (Russian-born) novelist

3.    "I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity."-Edgar Allan Poe, letter to admiring medical student (1848)

2.    "Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-'Wait and hope'."-Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870); The Count of Monte Cristo; French dramatist & novelist

1.    "I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."-Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989), US actress & comedienne

Gilda Radner (publicity still)