Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

He who despairs is wrong.

Victor Hugo

Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of United Nations disapproval be allowed to impose conditions on its own withdrawal?

Dwight D Eisenhower

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Jos

The pure, the bright, The beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth,The impulses to wordless prayer,The streams of love and truth,The longing after something lost,The spirit's yearning cry,The striving after better hopes;These things can never die.The timid hand stretched forth to aid a brother in his need,A kindly word in grief's dark hour that proves a friend indeed;The plea for mercy softly breathed,When justice threatens high,The sorrow of a contrite heart;These things shall never die, shall never die.Let nothing pass,For every hand must find some work to do,Lose not a chance to waken love.Be firm and just and true,So shall a light that cannot fade beam on thee from on high,And angel voices say to thee;These things can never die.

Charles Dickens

Learning something new is fun.

Alex Trebek

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Warren G. Bennis

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Ted Danson

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Bob Hope

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

Mary Kay Andrews

When art wins, everyone wins.

Jerry Saltz

Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never wanted to actually hear the words out loud, because then you'd have to admit to yourself that you'd wanted proof, and that somehow made you baser, less civilized.

Jodi Picoult

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Anton Chekhov, Letter, to his ed