I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Oscar Wilde

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Susanna Moodie

With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.

Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

Sally Field

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.

Aldo Leopold

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Kevin Smith

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Mark Twain

We are all fools when one wise man appears.

Orson Scott Card

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

William J. Harris

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

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