Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

Dennis Prager

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul Richter

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Bede Griffiths

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Arthur Henderson

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Terry Goodkind

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

Henry David Thoreau

I ate mythology

Yusef Komunyakaa

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

Henry David Thoreau

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

William Samuel Johnson

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Thomas Alva Edison

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

Leslie Nielsen

In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe