What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Phillips Brooks

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

Virginia Woolf

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

Justin Trudeau

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

Albert Einstein

Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?

Oscar Wilde

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The city is recruited from the country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Albert Einstein

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Charles Dickens

Wo wei ni xie de, he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested. You made something for me? Tessa asked.I wrote something for you, he corrected, with a smile, and began to play.

Cassandra Clare