And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Well, it's simple to love someone, " she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.' 'In the way of what?' 'In the way of what's true.

What's the burn scale?

We have lunch at ten-forty-five, ” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.

Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?