Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

George W. Bush

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Russell Baker

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

Greg Louganis

I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Aldo Leopold

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Spike Lee

Die Sinnlichkeit übereilt oft das Wachsthum der Liebe, so dass die Wurzel schwach bleibt und leicht auszureissen ist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

C.S. Lewis

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Daniel Wallace

As I never tire of saying, heat is not the antithesis of light but rather the source of it.

Christopher Hitchens

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar R. Fiedler

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes