Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a fa?ade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Horace

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Seneca

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

William Carlos Williams, Picture

This I do partly mentally and partly by talking till I correct the wrong impressions and establish the truth, and the truth is the cure. . . . A sick man is like a criminal cast into prison for disobeying some law that man has set up. I plead his case, and if I get the verdict, the criminal is set at liberty. If I fail, I lose the case. His own judgment is his judge, his feelings are his evidence. If my explanation is satisfactory to the judge, you will give me the verdict. This ends the trial, and the patient is released.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Decemb

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

Thomas Jefferson

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Stanislav Grof

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Jason Bateman

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.

Stephen Richards