I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through reminiscence, that is by remembering, by intuitively searching into our own experience.

Rollo May

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

George Will

Gifts burst rocks

Benjamin Franklin

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

Alphonsus Liguori

Clenched Soul

Pablo Neruda

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Sister Corita Kent

I am not your sun or your g-----n sky, I am the fire that will burn all of your hope to the ground. I was born of the wild, darling, and I'm not here for you to love

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The true greatness of a nation is not measured by the vastness of its territory, or by the multitude of its people, or by the profusion of its exports and imports; but by the extent to which it has contributed to the life and thought and progress of the world. A man's greatness is not estimated by the size of his body or of his purse; not by his family connections or social position, however high these may be. He may bulk large in public estimation today, but tomorrow he will be forgotten like a dream, and his very servants may secure a higher position and a name lasting possibly a little longer.A man's greatness is estimated by his influence, not over the votes and empty cheers of a changing and passing crowd, but by his abiding, inspiring influence in their bidden thoughts, upon their ways of thinking, and consequently of acting. That is why the Wycliffes, Shakespeares, Miltons, Newtons, Wesleys, and Gladstones of English history live, and will live, in everlasting memory, while lesser men are remembered only through them, and the crowd of demagogues, pretenders, and self-seekers are named, if ever named, only to point a moral, or adorn a tale.So with nations. A great nation is not one which, like Russia, has an enormous territory ; or, like China, has an enormous population. It is the nation which gives mankind new modes of thought, new ideals of life, new hopes, new aspirations; which lifts the world out of the rut, and sets it going on a cleaner and brighter road.

L. E. Blaze, Lecture at the D. B

Wealth will no give you satisfaction. The more your wealth grows, the more your requirements grow with it.

Leo Tolstoy

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Jamie Lee Curtis