It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

It is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than Nazis or Stalinists.

Christopher Hitchens

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

Terry Pratchett

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

Will Rogers

But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Cassandra Clare

I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

Angela Bassett

If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order, I'd reply, so I can go on drinking and smoking!

Luis Bunuel

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Thomas Jefferson