I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

Milan Kundera

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

William Sanderson

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

John Quincy Adams

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierceInto the heights of love's rare universe,Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychid

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Nadia Comaneci

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Gustav Heinemann

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

Garrett Graff

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Marie Carmichael Stopes