"If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government."

“You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”

“It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.”

“The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.”

“Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.”

“There is still a future with music, because people want music”

“While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.”

Source : "Practicing Loving Kindness In The Capital" by Matteo Pistono, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

“... our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.”

“In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Trial and International Law". Book by George Ginsburgs, p. 163 (July 23, 1941 order issued to the German Arm), 1990.