Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's views takes a secondary position.

Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don’t exist. Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

I wish I knew what I know now before.