As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

Bertrand Russell

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

If something can go wrong it will.

(Edward A. Murphy Murphy's Law

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Marianne Moore

Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love? Why must I hide myself in self-contempt in order to understand? Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched?

Eugene O'Neill

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.

Benjamin Disraeli

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Helen Gurley Brown

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Epil

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Anne Sexton