So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

Francois Hollande

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

Paul Nurse

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Leigh Hunt

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Steven Wright

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Ivan Reitman

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Victoria Justice

Patience carries a lot of wait

Source Unknown

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Jessica Lange

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

Paul Lynde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Aristotle