It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house : that is the true middle-class unit.

George Bernard Shaw

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

Dejan Stojanovic

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.

Christopher Hitchens

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Philip Emeagwali

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward Windsor

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Thomas Alva Edison

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Benjamin Franklin

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

Christiane Amanpour

I am against the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo