My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - in himself.

Erich Fromm

Mas, no que se refere a este tribunal, a virtude negativa da tolerância deve transformar-se na virtude menos fácil, mas mais elevada, da justiça. Sobretudo, quando o vazio de um coração, assim como o que descobrimos neste homem, se torna um abismo onde a sociedade pode sucumbir. [...] Ainda na opinião dele, um homem que matava moralmente a mãe devia ser afastado da sociedade dos homens,exatamente como o que levantava a mão criminosa contra o autor de seus dias. Em todos os casos, o primeiro preparava os atos do segundo, anunciava-os, de certa forma, e legitimava-os. [...] - Peço-vos a cabeça deste homem - disse. E é sem escrúpulos que vos dirijo este pedido. Pois no decorrer da minha longa carreira tem-me acontecido pedir a pena capital, mas nunca como hoje eu senti este penoso dever tão compensado, equilibrado, iluminado pela consciência de um mandamento sagrado e imperativo e pelo horror que sinto diante de um rosto humano onde nada leio que não seja monstruoso.

Albert Camus

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Clint Eastwood

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

C.S. Lewis

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?

Joan Manley

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Edmund Burke

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Saint Francis de Sales

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Mark Twain

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so

Samuel Johnson