I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.

Margaret Atwood

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Pope John Paul II

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale Turner

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

Martin C. Smith

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Albert Einstein

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Baltasar Gracian

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

Gerome Ragni, from the musical H

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Billy Graham

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

Ellen DeGeneres

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

Terry Eagleton

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Terry Goodkind