By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Walter Cronkite

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Gustav Mahler

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

James McGreevey

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

Stephen Richards

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Flannery O'Connor

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

Horst Koehler

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

John Milton