Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

Charles Lederer

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

Jewel

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Ray Blanton

Nothing beats a great smile.

Karl Urban

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

Anton Chekhov

One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time, just springtime last, our infant child pushed through the fragile barrier of her womb. Her legs branched out, just as the wood branches out from these eternal trees around us; but she was not hardy as they. My wife groaned with blood and ceased to breathe. Aye!, a scornful eve that bred the kind of pain only a god can withstand.

Roman Payne

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

Niki Taylor

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Henry David Thoreau, The Writing

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Homer

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

Thomas Jefferson

Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.

Leila Summers