Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Armstrong Williams

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Thomas Fuller

When the superior scholar hears of Tao, he diligently practises it. When the average scholar hears of Tao, he sometimes retains it, sometimes loses it. When the inferior scholar hears of Tao, he loudly laughs at it. Were it not thus ridiculed, it would not be worthy of the name of Tao.

LaoTzu, Source: The Sayings of L

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

Neither one of them could turn off their feelings, even with so much time and distance between them. The more they were apart, and the more they weren't allowed to be together, the more they loved each other.

Donna Lynn Hope

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Kris Kristofferson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Albert Einstein

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Jack Welch

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

Gerald R. Ford