I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

Aldous Huxley

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.

James Stephens

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Ryan Lochte

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

Martha Plimpton

Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes.

Michael Lipsey

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Noam Chomsky

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

Jodi Picoult

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

Neil Gaiman

If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

Anton Chekhov

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Joyce Meyer

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

Daisaku Ikeda