But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...

C.S. Lewis

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

George Santayana

Success always leaves footprints.

Booker T. Washington

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

Jeff Buckley

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Abraham Lincoln

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

William Shakespeare

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

John Neal

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

John F. Kennedy

Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.

American Indian Proverb, Navajo