Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a black dot falls off the wing two thousand feet above our field. At almost the same instant, a white streak behind him flowered out into the delicate wavering muslin of a parachute -- a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and suspending below them, with invisible threads, a human life, and man who by stitches, cloth, and cord, had made himself a god of the sky for those immortal moments.

Charles A. Lindbergh

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

Cameron Diaz

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

Only with winter-patience can we bringThe deep desired, long-awaited spring.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Herman Melville

Great men are not always wise.

Bible

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Thomas Tusser

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

Jeremy Renner

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Robin Hobb

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Milton Friedman

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Peter Steele