It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Edmund Burke

Americans have discovered fear.

Jose Saramago

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Gertrude Stein

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

Paul Farmer

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

Steve Irwin

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

Arabella Weir

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Kahlil Gibran

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

Ezra Taft Benson

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Barbet Schroeder

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Anthony Lewis