breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satanand even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine, The Crisis, 1776

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

William J. Clinton

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Source Unknown

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Doug Coupland

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

John Malkovich

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

Nikita Khrushchev

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

Jodi Picoult

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Tracy Chapman

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Allen Klein

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Rep