and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

Paul Gauguin

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Barbara Boxer

I think we're here for each other.

Carol Burnett

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Horace

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Paul Wellstone

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Hellmut Walters

Security will produce danger.

Samuel Johnson

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Sergei Lukyanenko

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Don Marquis

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson