God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

In regard to this principle, that all men are born free and equal, if there is an animal on earth to which it does not applythat is not born free, it is manhe is born in a state of the most abject want, and in a state of perfect helplessness and ignorance, which is the foundation of the connubial tie. Who should say that all the soil in the world is equally rich, the first rate land in Kentucky and the Highlands of Scotland because the superficial content of the acre is the same, would be just as right as he who should maintain the absolute equality of man in virtue of his birth. The ricketty and scrofulous little wretch who first sees the light in a work-house, or in a brothel, and who feels the effects of alcohol before the effects of vital air, is not equal in any respect to the ruddy offspring of the honest yeoman; nay, I will go further, and say that a prince, provided he is no better born than royal blood will make him, is not equal to the healthy son of a peasant.

John Randolph

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Les Brown

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Rabindranath Tagore

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

William Sanderson

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

Norah Jones

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Samuel G. Goodrich

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Thomas Henry Huxley

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

William M. Holden

It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.

Joshua Emmet