Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.
It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.
I got fed up of listening to bollocks
Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.
If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. That simply is not true. . . . Unlike biological evolution, intelligent design is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school science classes.
Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.