Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago. There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.

True love is the parent of humility.

William Ellery Channing

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Oliver Goldsmith

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

Barbara Boxer

and the cost of a thing is the amountof what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,immediately or in the long run

Henry David Thoreau

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Alan Lakein

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Walter Lord

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Jose Rizal

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Arnold Bennett

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly

In our many inevitable roles each day, if we wish to be wise, we can increasingly be conscious of our offhand potential to damage or bless.

Mark Demoss

Implicitly or explicitly, the rhythms of our lives, the movement from season to season, the patterns of the winds, and the pulse of the tides all depend on the apparent motions of the sun and moon and stars. Yet most modern urban dwellers are only dimly aware of the night sky ? the stars and their myriad forms. They are only slightly more aware of the phases of the moon or the motions of the sun. Even those who take the daily horoscope seriously generally have a very poor notion of its connection with astronomical phenomena.

Ray A. Williamson