The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

From the wreck of the past, which hath perishWritten to his half sister following his exile on grounds of incest with her.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, To A

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

J. Donald Walters

My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

AnnaLynne McCord

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Alexis Carrel

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Nicolas Cage

This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.

Jack Kevorkian

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,Your head like the golden-rod,And we will go sailing away from hereTo the beautiful land of Nod.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Beautif

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Veronica Roth

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Johann von Goethe