Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Gerhard Kocher

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

Eamon de Valera

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Joseph Butler

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

May Sarton

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Jimmy Johnson

I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the state.

Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

Linda Vester

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

Elizabeth Gilbert

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Harriet Tubman