Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Neil Gaiman

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Bob Riley

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Laura Hillenbrand

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Dave Grohl

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.

Abraham Lincoln

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Alanis Morissette

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.Tenzin Gyatso (1935- ), 14th Dailai Lama

Dalai Lama, Ocean of Wisdom; Gui

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.

Jacqueline Rayner

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

C.S. Lewis