Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Nelson Algren

Pick a truth that blesses your life!

Toba Beta

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Vladimir Lenin

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Tony Blair

Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

Linwood Barclay

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John Lydon

Poverty is the worst kind of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Matthew Arnold

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Charlie Chaplin

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Humphrey Bogart