Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Theodore Roosevelt

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

Benjamin Franklin

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received

Albert Einstein

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker

Love is full of anxious fears.

Ovid

I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took itout, it was gone.

Steven Wright

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

Carl Levin

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

Aldous Huxley

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the

Albert Einstein

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, The Orator

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

W. Somerset Maugham