...I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this trip. It was as if the act of touching these places, walking these roads,and asking these questions had added another column to my being. And the only possible explanation I could find for that feeling was that a spirit existed in many of the places I visited, and a spirit existed in me and the two had somehow met in the course of my travels. It's as if the godliness of the land and the godliness of my being had fused.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Marshall McLuhan

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!

Blaise Pascal

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Francois Hollande

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.

David Hume

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

Bernie Sanders

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

John Webster

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

James Dyson

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Charlotte Bronte

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Josh Billings

She walks in beauty. (118)

Ron Rash