Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

Stephen Cambone

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Victor Hugo

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

Andrew Sullivan

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Blaise Pascal

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

Bo Bennett

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

Zoe Saldana

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

For a sickness, love is the healthiest

Euripides

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Bob Kerrey

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

Elizabeth Edwards

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

John Burroughs

A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

Bertrand Russell