Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Aime Cesaire

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Robert Orben

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Yiddish Proverb

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Mahatma Gandhi

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

Jerry Rice

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Aristotle

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Tony Blair

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

James McGreevey

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Lord Shaftesbury