One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

the materialist conception of history.

Christopher Hitchens

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Newt Gingrich

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Karl Rahner

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Barbara Jordan

Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.

Jerry Martin

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Jose Bergamin

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Joseph Conrad

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Gus Van Sant

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Frank Murkowski

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Miranda Otto