A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

George Orwell

Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed.

Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

The only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

Douglas Adams

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Dorothy Thompson

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them. . . . They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

John W. Gardner

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

Mattie Stepanek

We write our own destiny; we become what we do.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

Robin D. Hart

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe