One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

Jeffrey Kluger

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

John Battelle

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Edgar Cayce

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32

Bible

It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.

John Updike

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Michael Caine

Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Harry S Truman

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Jeane Platiere

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

Al-Waleed bin Talal