The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

Corey Hart

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Margaret J. Wheatley

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The richness of the human journey is here. Listen. Pass it on. So that there will not pass from our future the enchantment that begins with the honored words, Once upon a time, long ago and far away, in a deep forest, there lived a child - much like you.

Anon.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Sir Winston Churchill

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Aristotle

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Emily Greene Balch

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Jodi Picoult

said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Christopher Hitchens

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Michael Chabon