Theologian: But what is to love? Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.

The first and most difficult obstruction to the fulfillment of the law of God is that fact that our society's existing laws are completely opposed to this law.

Leo Tolstoy

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

Jarod Kintz

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

Terry Pratchett

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

Christopher Hitchens

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Anatole France

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Theodore Roosevelt

True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.

Claude Bernard

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare