Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.This above all: to thine ownself be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.(Polonius speaking)

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Eric Hoffer

I loved my friendHe went away from meThere's nothing more to sayThe poem ends soft as it began -I loved my friend.

Langston Hughes

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

Ray Bradbury

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

Kate Millett

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Steven Soderbergh

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it

Aristotle

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Wallace Stevens

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

John Green

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Harold Rosenberg