Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

Youth has no age.

Pablo Picasso

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

Paul Getty

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Bianca Jagger

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Sally Field

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Dick Vermeil

All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary.

William Shakespeare

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Richard Eyre

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes.

Lawson Purdy