Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

Thomas Jefferson

Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts.

Thomas Pynchon

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Jeff Bridges

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

Azar Nafisi

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Ball

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Sarah Dessen

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Rogers

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.

John Dryden

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell