I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Rob Bell

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

Abraham Lincoln

The blessedness of being little!!!

William Shakespeare

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

Bianca Jagger

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

Thomas Ehrlich

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone? - Tiffany Aching in

Terry Pratchett

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view.

Jane Austen

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Fred Allen

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.

Margaret Thatcher

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

Charisma Carpenter