Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Peter Ustinov

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Ronald Reagan

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Jodie Foster

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Diane Ackerman

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Anton Chekhov

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Charles Horton Cooley

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.

Christopher Hitchens