It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

Neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances. The President's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. Absent a claim of need to protect military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets, we find it difficult to accept the argument that even the very important interest in confidentiality of Presidential communications is significantly diminished by production of such material for in camera inspection with all the protection that a district court will be obliged to provide.

Warren Earl Burger, United State

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

Steven Wright

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Francis Bacon

Sweets to the sweet.

William Shakespeare

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Steven Morrissey

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Henry David Thoreau

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Horace

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

W. Somerset Maugham

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken