We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it.

General Robert E. Lee, at the ba

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Tucker Carlson

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

Henry Louis Gates

Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Ambrose Bierce

It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in , for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again.This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since , but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores.

Christopher Hitchens

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Junior Seau

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Jeff Goodell

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Jesus Christ

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Cathy Freeman