It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

John Quincy Adams

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Henry Miller

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Malcolm De Chazal

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

John C. Maxwell

All people are a single nation.

Qur'an

Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.

Peter H. Davids

First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.http://academics.vmi.edu/psy_dr/friedrich_nietzsche.htm

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau