Men are only as loyal as their options.

The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.Say not, I have found the path of the soul.Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Kahlil Gibran

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no 'foreign' or 'civil' wars, only wars that were just or unjust. Until the great universal concord could be arrived at, warfare, at least when it was the battle between the urgent future and the dragging past, might be unavoidable. How could such a war be condemned? War is not shameful, nor the sword-thrust a stab in the back, except when it serves to kill right and progress, reason, civilization, and truth. When this is war's purpose it maeks no difference whether it is civil or foreign war - it is a crime. Outside the sacred cause for justice, what grounds has one kind of war for denigrating another? By what right does the sword of Washington despise the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Which is the greater - Leonidas fighting the foreign enemy or Timoleon slaying the tyrant who was his brother? One was a defender, the other a liberator. Are we to condemn every resort to arms that takes place within the citadel, without concerning ourselves with its aim?

Victor Hugo

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

William Howard Taft

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Sam Houston

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Richard Meier

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

Ingrid Newkirk

Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

William Gibson