Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, No good deed goes unpunished? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

Pliny the Elder

The past has no power over the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Bob Dole

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

Stephen King

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Chinua Achebe

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

Tony Kushner

Unless followed by the world 'education', has now lost this meaning [seeking knowledge or doing something for its own sake -- i.e. 'freely' with no exterior motive]. For that loss, so damanging to the whole of our cultural outlook, we must thank those who made it the name, first of a political, and then a religious, party. The same irresponsible rapacity, the desire to appropriate a word for its 'selling-power', has often done linguistic mischief. It is not easy now to say at all in English what the word would have said if it had not been 'cornered' by politicians. , , , and have been destroyed in the same way. Sometimes the arrogation is so outrageous that it fails; the Quakers have not killed the word . And sometimes so many different people grab at the coveted word for so many different groups or factions that, while it is spoiled for its original purpose, none of the grabbers achieve secure possession. is an example; it will probably end by being a term of eulogy as vague as .

C.S. Lewis

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Elizabeth Gilbert

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It's the neediness that's the problem. Instead, become that which attracts those things.

David R. Hawkins

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Naveen Andrews

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Charles L. Allen