The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Lewis Thomas

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

Susan Anton

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

John Ralston Saul

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Albert Einstein

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Ronald Reagan

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Ibrahim Babangida

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

George W. Bush

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Louise J. Kaplan

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Benjamin Disraeli