Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, rememberingthat only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, andthat all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.

Olaf Stapledon

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Walter Lippmann

Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled, And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night, O gentle Jesus! be our light.

Frederick William Faber

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Isiah Thomas

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Sean Astin

Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Ambrose Bierce

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

William Allen White

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Robert Mapplethorpe

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

Kim Cattrall

Day, n. A period of twenty four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce