Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution

Thomas Jefferson

The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he tak

Ernest Hemingway

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

Kenneth G. Wilson

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Orson Scott Card

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

Lauryn Hill

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Bill Vaughan

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

William Albert Allard

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Thomas Traherne