Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal being; truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind. We individuals approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experience, through our illumi

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

Shannyn Sossamon

Either I will find away or I will make one

Sir Philip Sidney

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Mary Astell

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Venerable Bede

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!

Orson Scott Card

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

Robert Osborne

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain