When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art.

Henry David Thoreau

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

Judge Learned Hand, The Spirit o

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Kenny Loggins

Education is not so important as people think.

Elizabeth Bowen

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

Paul Simon

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King Solomon

Bible

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors

Ralph Waldo Emerson