Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

John Donne

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

King Abdullah II

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Milovan Djilas

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

Scott Snyder

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

John Steinbeck

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre.

A. A. Hodge

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

Stephen Bayley

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Jean de la Bruyere