After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Terry Eagleton

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Mitt Romney

Well, Bennie, now that we know the thing can fly, all we have to do is improve its range a bit.

Simon Ramo

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey

Arab Proverb

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Debra Winger

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Herbert Read

Lying is the new truth.

B. Cameron Lee

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Orson Scott Card

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

Aleister Crowley

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

Tahereh Mafi

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

William Shakespeare

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

George Farquhar