The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall.

Theodore L. Cuyler

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present centuryshows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

Arthur Schopenhauer

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

Kevin Barry

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

Jack Kevorkian

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

Stewart Udall

The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.

William Arthur Ward

You affect the world by what you browse.

Tim Berners-Lee

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Susan Faludi

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

Aneurin Bevan