There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Mildred Newman

Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers.

C.S. Lewis

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Rahm Emanuel

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Leslie Stephen

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

Ron Fournier

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

Eddie Vedder

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

Tucker Carlson

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Walt Whitman

Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

Bible

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Antonin Artaud

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl