Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Truth by definition excludes.

Ravi Zacharias

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.

Theodore Roosevelt

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Phil Donahue

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

Ronald Reagan

Tyrion says that people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

George R. R. Martin

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Samuel Johnson

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

Helena Christensen

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found that dispelled once and for all the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

John Locke