Man proposes, but God disposes.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Augusten Burroughs

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

Herman Wouk

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George MacDonald

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Karl Marx

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything -- in other words, utter savages.

Leo Tolstoy

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Sir Winston Churchill

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.

Robert Burton

Sometimes it takes a walk through the darkness; to totally appreciate the light

L.M. Young