It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Elia Kazan

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

Ayn Rand

You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. It will be night, but no matter. Dying is simple. It does not take daylight. So be it: I will die by starlight

Victor Hugo

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Bessie Head

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

Gayle Forman

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

Ferdinand De Saussure

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Catherine Booth

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams

I die adoring God,loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

If everything, everything were known, statistical estimates would be unnecessary. The science of probability gives mathematical expression to our ignorance, not to our wisdom.

Samuel R. Delany

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain