But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Erwin Chargaff

Only useless things are indispensable.

Francis Picabia

When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.

Elise Stefanik

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

Liz Smith

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

William Saroyan

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

Henrique Capriles Radonski

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Aleksandar Hemon

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Katharine Anthony

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

William Scranton

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

F. Scott Fitzgerald