"By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace."

“National honor is national property of the highest value.”

Source : James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

“Science ... is organized common sense.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

“Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.”

“It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?”

“Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!”

“Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.”

“Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.”

“Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it-is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.