These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

Source Unknown

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

Terry Pratchett

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

Jeffrey Kluger

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Source Unknown

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Eric Butterworth

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Alexander Maclaren

The anatta theory denies the existence of a self only when the word self is taken to refer to some thing in addition to the groups of factors making up a person. The conviction that there is a substantial self is the root-cause of suffering, for this results in the attitude that underlies and makes possible the attachment of the various processes to a self. It is ignorance that allows the attachment and thereby makes possible suffering.

John M. Koller, Oriental Philoso

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

William Ellery Channing

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Ayn Rand

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

John Muir

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler