An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Boris Pasternak

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

Terry Eagleton

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Thomas A. Edison

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

Dennis Kucinich

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Robert Frost

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

Brooke Burke

My work is done why wait.

George Eastman

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Anthony Sampson

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Plutarch

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Morris West