The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

A government of laws, and not of men.

John Adams

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Marian Anderson

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them

Charles Dickens

Death is a butterfly in it's cocoon waiting to fly . . .

Maria Housden

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

Source Unknown

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Dante Alighieri

There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear.

Peter Heller

The complex develops out of the simple.

Colin Wilson

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

George Moore