The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Simone Weil

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Emma Goldman

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Roger Maris

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

John Burroughs

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct

Benjamin Franklin

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

G.K. Chesterton

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George E. Mueller

On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare, The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire, Of hasty love or headlong ire.

Walter Scott

Riches have wings.

Proverb