Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

Eric Holder

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

David Brin

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

Tim Cahill

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

James A. Michener

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Fulton J. Sheen

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Jordin Sparks

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus