The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Evelyn Underhill

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Joe Simmons

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted

Bertrand Russell

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Peter Kreeft

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

Giorgio Faletti

Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it.

William Shakespeare

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Helen Hayes

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

Neal Stephenson