I proclaim the inevitable advent of the universal republic. Not the transient backslidings, nor the darkness and the dread, nor the tragic difficulty of uplifting the world everywhere at once will prevent the fulfillment of international truth.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

Jeri Ryan

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Herman Wouk

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Bertrand Russell

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Sarah Palin

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

Cynthia Ozick

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

David Harold Fink

It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.

Michael Symon

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero