Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

Leo Buscaglia

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

Virginia Woolf

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Dorothea Kent

Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.

Oscar Wilde

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.Sevastopol

Leo Tolstoy, May, 1855

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

One hundred years ago, our fathers retired the gods from politics. The Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, and the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people. It is the embodiment of physical and moral courage and of political wisdom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Captain J. Brown

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Pablo Picasso

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Lillian Hellman, The Watch on th