In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Norman Cousins

My life is my argument.

Albert Schweitzer

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

Mark Gorman

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

Antonin Artaud

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Wendell Berry

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

J. C. Watts

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

Henry Miller

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

E. O. Wilson

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Moshe Dayan

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Oscar Wilde