How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

People will then often say, But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

Douglas Adams

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Corey Hart

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

George Bernard Shaw

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Walter Pater

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

Marc Garneau

Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!

C. JoyBell C.

Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!

Richard Crashaw

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

Patricia Briggs

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Bob Balaban