Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

Henry David Thoreau

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

Thomas Frank

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Timothy Keller

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Peter Singer

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

Logan P. Smith

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Gerry Adams

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne