The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

Tom Vilsack

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Susan Neiman

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Diane Ackerman

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y

Ben Okri

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Mike Lee