"Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts."

“Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.”

“Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.”

Source : Eric Ambler (2008). “Epitaph for a Spy”, p.110, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.”

“The only boring people I know are bored people.”

“The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.”

“Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.”

Source : "U.S. freedoms not to blame for Mexico's drug war" by Wayne LaPierre, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2009.

“The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”

Source : "The Bird: Its Form and Function". Book by William Beebe, 1906.

“I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)”