Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

energy and persistence conquers all things

Benjamin Franklin

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

John F. Dodge

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

Ofra Haza

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasow

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Will Durant

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

William Osler

A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way.

Stasi Eldredge

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Toby Jones

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

Susan Sontag

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

E. B. White

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

Valentino Garavani