The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Billie Jean King

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Marc Jacobs

Under the general name of Commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature. This, of course, is a benefit which is temporary and mediate, not ultimate, like its service to the soul. Yet although low, it is perfect in its kind, and is the only use of nature which all men apprehend. The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball which floats him through the heavens. What angels invented these splendid ornaments, these rich conveniences, this ocean of air above, this ocean of water beneath, this firmament of earth between? this zodiac of lights, this tent of dropping clouds, this striped coat of climates, this fourfold year? Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once his floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Commodity,

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

War is the science of destruction.

John Abbott

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

Raymond Blanc

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Albert Einstein

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

Stephen King

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Henry George

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi