Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you?Gildor says this in response to Frodo saying Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of th

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

Erwin Rommel

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

Nancy McKeon

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

James Agate

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

Belinda Jeffrey

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow