Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted

Plato

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

James Joyce

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

Bob Dylan

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Alexander Pope

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

King Abdullah II

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

George Allen

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Peter Marshall

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..Phil 3:14

Aileen Friedman

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Cynthia Weil

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

G. K. Chesterton, "On the Crypti