The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Thomas Jefferson

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Woody Allen

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.

Nicole Krauss

Discussion in America means dissent.

James Thurber

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington.

Dalai Lama XIV

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Aristotle

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

Nicholas Kristof

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Joseph Crowley

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Michael Reagan

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Louis Binstock