Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Frank Murkowski

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Katharine Hepburn

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes

George MacDonald

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Richard King

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Louis C. K.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

Freedom is not enough.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Leland Stanford

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

James Buchan