For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Lionel Trilling

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Percival Lowell

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Mark Twain

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Sir Isaiah Berlin

Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?

Diane Messidoro

Every second a seeker can start over,For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.

Sri Chinmoy

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Pablo Picasso

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Jerry Orbach

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

Benjamin Mays

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln