But we should see gratitude in the whole context of life, and ask ourselves that life is changed and empowered by it.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

Mike Tyson

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

Paul Ryan

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

Miuccia Prada

It's not who, it's when

Alejandro Taubas

There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor of the American Express travel magazine, . Together, we evolved a harmless satire of the slightly driveling style employed by the journalists of tourism. 'Land of Contrasts' was our shorthand for it. ('Jerusalem: an enthralling blend of old and new.' 'South Africa: a harmony in black and white.' 'Belfast, where ancient meets modern.') It was as you can see, no difficult task. I began to notice a few weeks ago that my enemies in the 'peace' movement had decided to borrow from this tattered style book. The mantra, especially in the letters to this newspaper, was: 'Afghanistan, where the world's richest country rains bombs on the world's poorest country.'Poor fools. They should never have tried to beat me at this game. What about, 'Afghanistan, where the world's most open society confronts the world's most closed one'? 'Where American women pilots kill the men who enslave women.' 'Where the world's most indiscriminate bombers are bombed by the world's most accurate ones.' 'Where the largest number of poor people applaud the bombing of their own regime.' I could go on. (I think number four may need a little work.) But there are some suggested contrasts for the 'doves' to paste into their scrapbook. Incidentally, when they look at their scrapbooks they will be able to re-read themselves saying things like, 'The bombing of Kosovo is driving the Serbs into the arms of Milosevic.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Noel Gallagher

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Virginia Woolf

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Jesus Christ

I wish sometimes that I just didn't have to think about any of this, and could drone away my life. It would be easier.

Mark Heard