Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

Edward Thomson

When one must, one can.

Charlotte Whitton

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.

M. Grundler

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Vera Wang

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

Mike Myers

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

William Whewell

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Carroll O'Connor

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

P.C. Cast

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Steven Patrick Morrissey