His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Schuyler Colfax

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Samuel Butler

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

George Soros

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Jim Garrison

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Karel Capek

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

Lisa Marie Presley

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Bruce Vento

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

Robert Frost

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Germaine Greer