A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Edwin Markham

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Louisa May Alcott

A community is like the ones who govern it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

A. J. McLean

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Benjamin Franklin

We were good and we were confident. We really never had any doubt that we were going to win it all.

Reggie Jackson

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Albert Schweitzer

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

O. Henry Porter