The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

When the age is in, the wit is out

William Shakespeare

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

Renee Fleming

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

Henry Miller

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

David Eddings

Paties?ba ir darbs, meli ir slinkums. Paties?ba ir mekl?šana, ir c?n?šan?s, sevis izt?r?šana, non?kšana konfliktos un to risin?šana ar sav?m sirds asin?m. Meli ir gr?t?bu aizsegšana, izlikšan?s, zin?šanas izt?lošana tur, kur neko nezina, lai tikai nevajadz?tu mekl?t. Meli ir par k?triem mesties konfliktos un tos atrisin?t; tie izliekas, it k? konfliktu neb?tu bijis.

Rainis

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck, he said. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions......It starts with a feeling of patriotism within oneself. It carries through with a certain knowledge that the country as a whole - and for all the right reasons - felt and continues to feel this surge of patriotism within themselves. And one finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but you know what? This is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

Dan Rather, admitting, that patr

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

George Gurdjieff

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

Casey Stengel

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake

George Bernard Shaw