Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Strom Thurmond

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Winston Churchill

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Andrew Weil

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

Benjamin Carson

We can afford to lose money – even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation.

Warren Buffett

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

Joseph Ratzinger

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Bill Nighy

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Mies Van der Rohe