I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Georges Bernanos

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

Ray Dalio

In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.

Helen Quist Milligan

Perché mi hai tradito?

Daniela Barisone

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

Wangari Maathai

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Edward Abbey

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

Richard Feynman, Nobel Lecture,

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Marian Wright Edelman

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

John Green