We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Norman Thomas

Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.

Dhammapada

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

George Orwell

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

Janet Reno

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Jane Austen

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Jupiter Hammon

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

George Burns