Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Desiderius Erasmus

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance

Samuel Johnson

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

Dolly Parton

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Friedrich von Schiller

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Saul Alinsky

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Adam Schiff

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Napoleon Bonaparte

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Francis Adams

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Alanis Morissette