Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

Friedrich Nietzsche

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Ivan Turgenev

I could never drive in a great big car people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.

Terry McAuliffe

Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.

J.K. Rowling

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Bob Lemon

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Bjork

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

Jostein Gaarder

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Ed Rendell

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren G. Bennis

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Elie Wiesel

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Eric Hoffer