An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have a weapons sweep and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.

William Jefferson Clinton, inter

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Vladimir Nabokov

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

Fred Ward

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus

And Silence, like a poultice, comesTo heal the blows of sound.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Power is not alluring to pure minds

Thomas Jefferson

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

Life is too short to learn German.

R. Porson

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Virginia Woolf

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, unless it is the burning bush, in that case the value of your bird just went up!!

Neil Leckman

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

LaoTzu