Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

George Bernard Shaw

It is much safer to obey, than to govern.

Thomas Kempis

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Rick Santorum

With sticky thinking you can become unstuck!

Stephen Richards

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Al Alvarez

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

H. L. Mencken

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility

Thomas Jefferson

That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.[p214]

John Green