The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Roger Tory Peterson

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

George Orwell

If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

Shelley Long

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

Lydia Millet

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Remy de Gourmont

Everybody is a teenage idol.

Barry Gibb

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffer

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Billy Graham

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Blaise Pascal

I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

Barbra Streisand

Crying wouldn't help anything now.

Cassandra Clare

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

Boz Scaggs