Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Harry S. Truman

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

C.S. Lewis

If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves.

Florence Williams

Satu hal yang kupelajari, terkadang kita sering ketakutan duluan utk hal-hal yang sebenarnya tak pelu ditakuti.

Lea Agustina Citra

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

David Wilkerson

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Molly Ivins

What you become directly influences what you get.

Jim Rohn

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Simone Weil

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Garrett Hedlund