Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Everybody has the idea of Santa in their head and in their heart.

Mick Foley

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Francis Bacon

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Harry F. Banks

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

Lauren Conrad

You can observe a lot by watching.

Yogi Berra

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

Hayden Fry

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Andre Gide

That the whole free people of any nation ought to be exercised to arms, not only the example of our ancestors, as appears by the acts of parliament made in both kingdoms to that purpose, and that of the wisest governments among the ancients; but the advantage of choosing out of great numbers, seems clearly to demonstrate. For in countries where husbandry, trade, manufactures, and other mechanical arts are carried on, even in time of war, the impediments of men are so many and so various, that unless the whole people be exercised, no considerable numbers of men can be drawn out, without disturbing those employments, which are the vitals of the political body. Besides, that upon great defeats, and under extreme calamities, from which no government was ever exempted, every nation stands in need of all the people, as the ancients sometimes did of their slaves. And I cannot see why arms should be denied to any man who is not a slave, since they are the only true badges of liberty; and ought never, but in times of utmost necessity, to be put into the hands of mercenaries or slaves: neither can I understand why any man that has arms should not be taught the use of them.http://www.constitution.org/fletchr/fletchr.htm

Andrew Fletcher, A Discourse of

Alors, Hermione, tu admires toujours autant Lockhart, maintenant? dit Ron ? travers le rideau. Si Harry avait eu envie d'être transformé en mollusque, il l'aurait demandé.Tout le monde peut commettre des erreurs, répondit Hermione. D'ailleurs, ça ne te fait plus mal, n'est-ce-pas, Harry?Non, dit Harry. L'ennuie, c'est que ça ne me fait plus rien du tout.

J.K. Rowling

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

George Steiner

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Berkeley Breathed