You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.—Pablo Neruda

With the United States walking out of the Paris climate accord, cutting U.N. funding and sowing doubts about NATO and other trade commitments, the Iran agreement isn’t about Iran alone. It’s about upholding confidence in the international order. So, if Trump pursues a meltdown with Iran, he will also trigger a meltdown with Europe. Another one, to be precise.—Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. —Anaïs Nin

The earth laughs in flowers.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.—Luc Besson's "Lucy"

Most respectfully, the Giuliani and Mukasey affidavits appear surprisingly disingenuous in failing to mention the central role of Iran in the indictment, and indeed, failing to mention Iran at all in their affidavits.—U.S. District Judge Richard Berman

I am aware of my power, but my power is feminine; it demands a match, not a victory.—Anais Nin

The Turkish republic has always been flawed, but it always contained the aspiration that – against the backdrop of the principles to which successive constitutions claimed fidelity – it could become a democracy. Erdoğan’s new Turkey closes off that prospect.—Steven A. Cook

If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? We’re not sure, which speaks to the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to his Presidency with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.— Wall Street Journal