We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plautus

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual and the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts

Florence Sabin

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Omar Sharif

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Theodore White

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

William Hedgcock Webster

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Henri Matisse

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

SunTzu

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Joe Biden

Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in historia, et omne, quod fuit in historia, deberet esse in intellectu.Nothing is in intellect which has not been in history, and everything that was in history should also be in intellect.

Gustav Spet, Wisdom or Reason, 1