We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

James Shirley

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

Pam Grier

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

Don Bluth

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Finley Peter Dunne

he was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Mark Twain

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

Steve Buyer

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Edmond Haracourt