The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Nathaniel P. Willis

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

Primo Levi

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

David Miliband

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

David Hume, Treatise of Human Na

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

St. Gregory The Great

Love and romance are things worth waiting for.

Cath Crowley

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

Stephen King

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

Lawrence Wright

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Henry Miller

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

William Shakespeare

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Raoul Vaneigem