"If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see."

“Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.”

Source : Wesley Clark's speech at the conference of Military Reporters and Editors, October 2003.

“Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head”

“To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.”

“If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.”

“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”

“No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.”

“Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.”