Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Vernon L. Smith

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Jean de la Bruyere

I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.

Juliet Marillier

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

William Congreve, The Old Bachel

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

George W. Bush

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Jerome Lawrence

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Edward F. Halifax

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

John Sununu

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Barbara de Angelis