An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Jerome K. Jerome

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

Cate Blanchett

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Nicholas D. Kristof

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Melville D. Landon

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Soren Kierkegaard

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

Mitt Romney

There it was again: Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it?

J.K. Rowling

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Paulo Coelho

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

George Orwell