Thoughtful Thursday

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
- John Updike

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
- Walt Whitman

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
- John Berryman

"Beware the fury of a patient man."
- John Dryden