Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Voltaire

Love all, but trust a few.

William Shakespeare

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

Tavis Smiley

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Helene Deutsch

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

Bob Graham

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

Charles H. Duell, 1899

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Anne Lamott

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Karl Lagerfeld

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Bill Hybels

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Sir Theodore Martin, Said at rea