I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Lord Henry P. Brougham
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;
Mark Twain
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
Lincoln Chafee
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
James Broughton
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold
Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
Charles Browder
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The best of all lost arts is honesty
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
Benazir Bhutto
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Critics are men who sit and watch a battle from a high place and come down to shoot the survivors.
Ernest Hemingway
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
John Ashcroft
Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Walter Brower
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Thomas Fuller
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
A. Whitney Brown
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
Rene Cassin
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.
Ronald Reagan
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato
I left school on my 15th birthday.
David Bailey
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Bob Brown
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Albert Camus
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
John Hawkes
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Captain J. Brown
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
Kurt Vonnegut
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
Leonard Boswell
Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
Craig Brown
These, he said gravely, are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.
Aldous Huxley
Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
Elisha Cuthbert
Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
David Brown
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
Bianca Jagger
A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
Ambrose Bierce
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
Francis Yeats Brown
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