This is the irrational seasonWhere love blooms bright and wild.Had Mary been filled with reasonThere'd have been no room for the child.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence....I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour.But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature....But I do not believe India to be helpless....I do not believe myself to be a helpless creature....Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi, August 11, 1920

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

Vera Farmiga

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

William Petersen

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Samuel Johnson

I just think Christmas is a time to embrace all the naughty little things.

Jade Thirlwall

You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.

Kahlil Gibran

Kranzberg

Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite B

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Oliver Goldsmith

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Thomas Carlyle, History of the F