Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

Charlotte Bronte

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Li

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

William Jennings Bryan

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

Jane Austen

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

John Charles Polanyi

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Henry A. Kissinger

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

Ethan Hawke

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine