We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

I'm not afraid of your kind or your God.

Susan Ee

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

Jennifer Coolidge

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Andrew Bernstein

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Natalie Portman

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Ernest Hemingway

And I wanted to cry out at her that I could not put the body apart from the soul, and that the comfort of her body was more than a thing of the flesh, but was also a comfort of the soul, and why it was I could not say, and why it should be, I could not say, but there was in it nothing that was ugly or evil, but only good. But how can one find such words?

Robert McAfee Brown, Pieter in T

A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.

Martin H. Fischer

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Jim Evans

Through struggle to the stars.Latin: Per ardua ad astra

Anon., motto of the Royal Austra

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Henry David Thoreau

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde