In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

Patrick Stewart

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Benjamin Franklin

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

Gertrude Jekyll

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

E. T. Bell

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

Garrett Hardin

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine.

Jason Mraz

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

William Petersen