The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Abdallah II

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Marie Curie

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Charles Horton Cooley

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

John Opie

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Edward W. Howe

I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger-lane this morning. ... I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it, faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks and language, of the assembled spectators. ... When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the previous obscenities, than if the name of Christ had never been heard in this world, and there were no belief among men but that they perished like beasts.

Charles Dickens

Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Thomas Jefferson

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gregg Harris

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Antisthenes

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ralph Ransom

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Leo Tolstoy