I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

Yukio Mishima

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Samuel Johnson

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Hannah Arendt

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

James Madison

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Charles Darwin

They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.

Buddha

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

George Santayana

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.

Gerhard Kocher

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana