Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

William Blackstone

I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

John Green

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Natan Sharansky

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Karen Armstrong

This administration is totally colorblind.

Ronald Reagan

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

David Hockney

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

Mira Nair

Omnia Cellula e Cellula

John Green

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Ray Bradbury

One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.

Bill Vaughan