Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the A

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Meister Eckhart

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Fred G. Gosman

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Allen West

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Kahlil Gibran

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Le jugement du corps vaut bien celui de l'esprit et le corps recule devant l'anéantissement. Nous prenons l'habitude de vivre avant d'acquérir celle de penser.

Albert Camus

The supreme law of the land is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Ivan Sergeevich