My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Bill Moyers

There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.

George Eliot

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Coretta Scott King

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...

Leo Tolstoy

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Proverb

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

Lucy Liu

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Lev Grossman

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

George Carlin