The thing that most people didn't understand...was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

Alfred A. Montapert

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

A. E. Housman

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

John le Carre

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

Freya Stark

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Leo Tolstoy

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Kahlil Gibran

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

John L. Phillips

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Benjamin Franklin

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Will Rogers

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Thomas Wolfe

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.

A.J. Dalton