The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Robert Southey

It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.

Elbert Hubbard

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

Alison Krauss

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

Kurt Vonnegut

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

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No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

Julie Burchill

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Amy Grant

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Francine Rivers

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Esther Dyson

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

David Frum