At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.

Tim O'Brien

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

Nora Roberts

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

George Orwell

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Napoleon Hill

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

Marlee Matlin

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Sir John Egan

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Harold Pinter

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Pearl Buck

Pop music will never be low brow.

Lady Gaga