The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

James H. Robinson

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

John Selden

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Aldous Huxley

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Richard Bach

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

One who cares is one who listens.

J. Richard Clarke

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Janet Napolitano

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Meir Kahane

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Juvenal

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Dwight D Eisenhower