Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

E. M. Cioran

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

Theresa May

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

will.i.am

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All are presumed good till they are found at fault.

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

Dave Chappelle

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

Jon Porter

God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Ogden Nash

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Elisabeth Elliot

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Alan Watts

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Helen Gurley Brown