Beauty crowds me till I die,Beauty, mercy have on me!But if I expire today,Let it be in sight of thee

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Thomas Huxley

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson

My mom wasn't a movie star.

Jeff Bridges

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Friedrich Nietzsche

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Kenneth Hildebrand

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thomas Carlyle

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Erich Gutkind

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

J. Edgar Hoover

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Henry David Thoreau

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

Walter Savage Landor