That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

Adam Pascal

We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us.

William Hepworth Thompson

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot

Mark Twain

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

Robert Teeter

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

A. N. Wilson

I am deeply touchednot as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Simone Weil