I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

Terry Pratchett

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Eugene O'Neill

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Christopher Hill

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

John Charles Polanyi

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.

Edmund Burke

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

Mitt Romney

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Frances Wright

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

Nicholas Sparks

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Joseph Joubert