When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Henry David Thoreau

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

A. Whitney Brown

The author should be in his work like God is in the universe--present everywhere and visible nowhere.L'auteur dans son oeuvre doit etre comme Dieu dans l'univers, present partout et visible nulle part.

Gustave Flaubert

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

Quentin Tarantino

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Jean Paul

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Gene Robinson

Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world

Bertrand Russell

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

James Redfield

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

K. D. Lang

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Cardinal J. Newman