Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Mao Zedong

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Pat Riley

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Charles Dickens

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Simon Cowell

There must be a reason why people hesitate; uncertainty is one, no courage another.

Ron De Jonge

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stockwell Day

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Nicolas Caussin

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

Albert Low