I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Heywood Broun, Sitting on the Wo

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Elie Wiesel

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Lord Acton

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

Adrian Lyne

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

Bernadine Dorn

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benet

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Chanakya

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Taylor Swift

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Johann G. Fichte

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Maynard Keynes