I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

H. L. Mencken

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Christy Turlington

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Herbert Marcuse, Soviet Marxism,

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

John Dean

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry A. Kissinger

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

Michael Arad

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

William Shakespeare

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

Norah Jones

Respect the burden.

Napoleon Bonaparte

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis

If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself.

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