Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Henry Ward Beecher

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

Alexis de Tocqueville

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

Cheryl Strayed

I love the role of Ripley.

Sigourney Weaver

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Minna Antrim

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Muhammad Iqbal

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Caroline Richards