Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Fogg Brackell

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

Sam Donaldson

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In order to deal justly and equitably with your subjects, be straightforward and firm, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, but always following what is just, and upholding the cause of the poor till the truth be made clear.

Louis IX of France

...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

Albert Camus

I am a peace supporting Jew.

Alan Dershowitz

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Victor Hugo

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart - not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

Friedrich Nietzsche