History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Samuel Johnson

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

Jon Meacham

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Max Muller

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

Steve Goodier

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jill Clayburgh

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

English Proverb

All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.

Malaclypse the Younger

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

William Shakespeare

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

William S. Burroughs

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Ice T