God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.

Shelley Bovey

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

Jose Marti

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

Carl Sagan

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Sigmund Freud

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

Riley Keough

You have to be tough.

Mike Ditka

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Simone Weil

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Lillian Hellman, Watch on the Rh

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles.

W. P. Scargill