It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Doug Larson

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own

Mahatma Gandhi

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Dylan Thomas

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

John Poindexter

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me...

Masashi Kishimoto

But there's always a first time for everything

Melissa de la Cruz

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Earl Wilson