(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

Susan Sontag

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

Charles Rangel

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

John Stossel

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

James Thurber

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

Charles Lamb

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Hakeem Olajuwon

God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.

Edwin Louis Cole

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Hilaire Belloc

If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !

Alfred Adler

You don't have to let his definition of success be yours

Jody Hedlund