Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.

Graham Greene

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Malcolm Boyd

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

Daisaku Ikeda

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Thomas Jefferson

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Jim Bishop

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

David Herbert Donald

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Ma Jian

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

Source Unknown

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Pierre Corneille

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Muhammad Iqbal

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

John Hodgman