The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

Steven Pinker

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

Patrick Duffy

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Frederick William Robertson

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.

Norman Borlaug

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Duane G. Carey

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Abraham Lincoln

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

Thornton Wilder

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

Muqtada al Sadr

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill