America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Mahatma Gandhi

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere.Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit

William Cullen Bryant, The Death

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

Ricky Schroder

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Randolph Bourne

Love is knowing someone so deeply, understanding her so completely, that you can finish her thoughts without hesitation, confident in reading her face, her body, even her slightest gesture means something to you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

George Michael