Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

Careless seems the great Avenger; historyÂ’s pages but record

James Russell Lowell

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.

Annie Dillard

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.

Albert Camus

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Carly Fiorina

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

Ronald Reagan

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Albert J. Nock

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

Emily Watson

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

Act well your part; there all honor lies.

Alexander Pope

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

Kurt Vonnegut

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Henry David Thoreau