The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Denis Johnson

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Muhammad Iqbal

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

Terence

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Patience means self-suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.

Harvey Weinstein

It appears to me 2012 isn't a spiritual awakening, but instead, a human one. It is the disillusionment from the nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries and the empowerment of our true selves.

Steve Maraboli

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Al Gore

Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Stanley Baldwin