Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Terry Pratchett

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

Cassandra Clare

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Wade Boggs

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Amy Clampitt

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Patricia Hewitt

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

Terry Pratchett

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Bernard Manning

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

Dejan Stojanovic

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The merchant has no country

Thomas Jefferson