As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Rivka Galchen

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Orson Scott Card

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.

Jeremy Taylor

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Croesus

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Jodi Picoult

Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Charles Baudelaire

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

Matthew Rhys