What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Philip Pullman

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J.K. Rowling

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

Alexis de Tocqueville

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Richard M. Nixon

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Juvenal

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Peter Guber

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Diogenes Laërtius

Decency is Indecency's Conspiracy of Silence.

George Bernard Shaw

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

Frank Luntz

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters