The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

Michael Cunningham

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Harry Reasoner, 60 Minutes

How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.

Alice James

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.

Mary Harris Jones

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

Thomas Kretschmann

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Val Kilmer

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Jeremy Bentham

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Margaret Thatcher