A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Orson Welles

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

Oscar A. Romero

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Tony Snow

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Hunter S. Thompson

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Hannah Whitall Smith

I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.

Coco J. Ginger

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

Bruce Catton

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

Kirsten Dunst

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Bertrand Russell

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Chris Patten