With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strengt

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

Bill Keller

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Ray Bradbury

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

Michael Bloomberg

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

Joseph J. Ellis

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Dorothea Brande