The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

I grew up in a Navy family.

Elizabeth Edwards

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades

Audrey Hepburn

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

KaThe Kollwitz

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Kenneth Ewart Boulding

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

Jenny Eclair

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

John Ruskin

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.

Osbert Sitwell, Wisdom

Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?

Christopher Hitchens

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.

J.K. Rowling

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

Alan Dershowitz

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Pablo Casals