I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

Jacques Maritain

Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

One finger cannot lift a pebble.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My cousins gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

Rodney Dangerfield

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;We bear the burden and the heatOf the long day, and wish 'twere done.Not till the hours of light returnAll we have built as we discern.

Matthew Arnold, Morality (st. 2)

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

William Drummond

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Jodie Foster

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Vladimir Nabokov, LECTURES ON LI

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Jimmy Carter

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

Michelle Bachelet

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb