The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Maurice Sendak

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Virgil

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

Andrew Cuomo

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Charles Kettering

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Tar-heart baby, let me be, let me shine bright, stop making fun of me. Stop bringing up my past un-funs.

Coco J. Ginger

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

John Foster Dulles

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Jodi Picoult

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Blaise Pascal

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

Jonathan Carroll

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

Ron Wyden