Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthsiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.'Nevertheless, it was beautiful.

Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Ti

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance

Samuel Johnson

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

George S. Kaufman

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.

Ambrose Bierce

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Henry David Thoreau

In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Rowan D. Williams

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

Michael W. Smith

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani