Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Georg Simmel

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

Roger Ebert

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Quentin Crisp

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Plato

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.

Gerald W. Johnson

We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Ray Bradbury

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

John Henry Newman

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.

Proverb

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

Studs Terkel

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

John Gay