Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.

Ron Wyden

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Terry Pratchett

Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort,

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

Joan Marques

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that theres nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Terry Pratchett

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive

C.S. Lewis

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Edgar Degas

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

Elisabeth Elliot

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

William Shakespeare

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Johnny Depp