I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin

It is easy to judge evil unmixed, replied Gwydion. But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Lloyd Alexander

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro

All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.

Jonah Hill

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

William Falconer

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Jack Dempsey

ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love.

Franz Schubert

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

C.S. Lewis

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

George Bernard Shaw

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith