We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

Steven Wright

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Aldous Huxley

She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

Orson Scott Card

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Emiliano Zapata

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

Cassandra Clare

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

David Herbert Lawrence

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

Charles Wesley

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

Patricia Neal