I was already set for life when I met her.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

G. K. Chesterton

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

Abraham Lincoln

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible.

Jeff Taylor

Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.

Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Nelson Mandela

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Clarence Darrow

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

Neil Gaiman

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine De SaintExupery, The Lit

Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.

Marjorie Liu

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

Lee Scott

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Nick Price