English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Dorothy Corkville Briggs

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max de Pree

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

H. L. Mencken

People like passion in politics.

Ed Gillespie

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Caroline Kennedy

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

George S. Patton

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

Marc Maron

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Johnny Rotton

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Omar N. Bradley