A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

G. K. Chesterton

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

George Konrad

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Margaret Fuller

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Archibald MacLeish

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

Bill Nelson

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Jeffrey Archer

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

Bernard Ingham

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Darius Rucker

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

Samuel Johnson

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

Peter L. Berger

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

William Rose Benet