The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

P. J. O'Rourke

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.

N.K. Jemisin

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

Hillary Clinton

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Eric Hoffer

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida, Ac

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Graham Greene

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

Paulo Coelho

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Stephen Lewis

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half

Jane Austen