That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Friedrich Schiller

Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for song;Wild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night long;Sad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong!

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dirge

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Harry S. Truman

we are product of our past but we dont have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replace them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Shirley Henderson

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

Plato

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Prescott Bush

Law is a bottomless pit.

John Arbuthnot

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patti Smith

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Henry David Thoreau

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Edward Fairfax