You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

Jonathan Kozol

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Judy Biggert

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Richard Branson

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

Steve Maraboli

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh.

Kahlil Gibran

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Bernard Williams

The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same ignorance from which they set out; but this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself. Those between the two, who have departed from natural ignorance and not been able to reach the other, have some smattering of this vain knowledge and pretend to be wise. These trouble the world and are bad judges of everything. The people and the wise constitute the world; these despise it, and are despised. They judge badly of everything, and the world judges rightly of them.

Blaise Pascal

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Javier Bardem

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Liam Neeson

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Marshall Field

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Douglas Horton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton