...observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization and the future of mankind. From that bondage I am, we are, free. Since we are prepared to renounce a good part of our infantile wishes, we can bear it if a few of our expectations turn out to be illusions.

Let me dream only with my heart, Love first, and after see: Know thy diviner counterpart Before I kneel to thee. So in thy motions all expressed Thy angel I may view: I shall not on thy beauty rest, But Beauty's ray in you.

George William Russell

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Bashar al-Assad

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Cassandra Clare

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Stephen Vizinczey

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

William Cowper

The public school system: Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

Walter Karp

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Phillips Brooks

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Malcolm X