Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Patrick White

Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.

Orson Scott Card

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Benjamin Haydon

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Suzanne Fields

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

J. C. Watts

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Joseph Beuys

Anyone believing in Cosmic Ordering wants for nothing.

Stephen Richards

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Andre Maurois

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet, widely attribut