It is a great joy to admire someone without reserve; love which is founded upon admiration oft he mind as well as the body of the chosen person undoubtedly affords the keenest delight.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

Blaise Pascal

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Gail Godwin

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Noam Chomsky

The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.

Source Unknown

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

William Shakespeare

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Leo Tolstoy

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli