Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

Kamisese Mara

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Oliver North

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt -- even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

C.S. Lewis

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John LeCarre

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on--while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man--for precisely the same reasons.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Isadora Duncan

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

George Gurdjieff

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson