Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

Nathan Hale

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Jesus Christ

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

Death is a fearful thing.

William Shakespeare

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Jonathan Davis

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Logan P. Smith

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Heinrich Suso

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Alan Shepard