The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Marcel Proust

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

Robert Hewison

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Dan Savage

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

Jacob Bronowski

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.

Charles Beacham

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Robert H. Schuller

We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

George W. Bush, Address to a Joi

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Carl Gustav Jung

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

Ryan White