Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Willie Shoemaker

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam

John Milton

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Laura Dern

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Oscar Wilde

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light

Mary Dunbar