Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Henry Rollins

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Will Durant

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

Christopher Hitchens

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Allen Ginsberg

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost

thus with a kiss I die

William Shakespeare

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

Jodi Picoult

No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.

Adelaide Proctor