The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Dale Earnhardt

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Condoleezza Rice

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Carlos Fuentes

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

James A. Baldwin

We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.

American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Dolly Parton

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Plato

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

George Orwell

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was dong in the reader's heart?

Stephen King