God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

I think nobody really loves America more than black Americans, because black Americans loved America even when America didn't love us back

Jamal Simmons

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth.

Leo Tolstoy

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)

Torkom Saraydarian

...governments don't produce economic growth people do.

Ronald Reagan

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Russell Baker

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

Kenneth Clark

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

Katharine Weber

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

Tom Cruise

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Lana Del Rey

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

LinChi