There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

Samuel Johnson

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

Chuck Palahniuk

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Richard Dawkins

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Robert Anton Wilson

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

David Thewlis

The wayside of business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

J. R. Todd

For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres. I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world. For this reason I undertook the task of rereading the works of all the philosophers which I could obtain to learn whether anyone had ever proposed other motions of the universe's spheres than those expounded by the teachers of astronomy in the schools. And in fact I found in Cicero that Hicetas supposed the earth to move. Later I also discovered in Plutarch that certain others were of this opinion. . . . Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Nicholas Copernicus

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Henri Nouwen

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

William Shakespeare