Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolateThat can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,And mitigate the gloom of Age?Religion bids the tempest cease,And, leads her to a port of peace;And on, the lonely pilot steersThrough the lapse of future years.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

C.S. Lewis

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Thomas Browne

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Aldrich Ames

You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer

Ernest Hemingway

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

J.K. Rowling

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Abu Bakr

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Lewis Mumford

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

Frank Black

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Sir Winston Churchill

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

G. K. Chesterton

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Peter McWilliams