I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

John Grisham

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Randolph Churchill

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.

Annie Dillard

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Lydia Maria Child

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

Henry A. Wallace

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Ernest Benn

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Quentin Crisp

Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained.

Sakshi Chetana

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Lee H. Hamilton