The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it

Confucius

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Tony Campolo

I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Jean Piaget

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Ron Perlman

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Eric Hoffer