This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

William Shakespeare

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

Edmund Burke

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Robin Williams

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Henry David Thoreau

Too much zeal spoils everything.

Proverb

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Robert Mugabe

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Voltaire

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Barack Obama

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Plato

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare