All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Nate Silver

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning, from Andrea Del

We fall forward to succeed.

Mary Kay Ash

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.

George Washington

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Erica Jong

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits

If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

Marquis de Sade

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Thomas Jefferson

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Albert Camus

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Mark Twain

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson