All people want is someone to listen. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal-Mart,...

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of...

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held...

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire, Zadig

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me. Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good...

Human beings cannot stand too much reality. Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw,...

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The...

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. Orson Scott Card, Treasure...