Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

Henry Beston

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Charles Kingsley

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Alex Kapranos

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Jim Ramstad

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

Christy Turlington

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

Vito Fossella

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.Open your doors and look abroad.From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardene

Spring and Fall: To a Young ChildMárgarét, are you gríevingOver Goldengrove unleaving?Leáves, líke the things of man, youWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?Ah! ás the heart grows olderIt will come to such sights colderBy and by, nor spare a sighThough worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;And yet you wíll weep and know why.Now no matter, child, the name:Sórrow's spríngs áre the same.Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressedWhat heart heard of, ghost guessed:It ís the blight man was born for,It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Toba Beta

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Sean O'Casey