Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,Where rumour of oppression and deceit,Of unsuccessful or successful war,Might never reach me more.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

LeBron James

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Sonia Sotomayor

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Clare Boothe Luce

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Jowett

The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Francis Bacon

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert (speak out) upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without it we must fall at once into depression or anarchy. To say that he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, and that, if he expresses them in public, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, all protection of the laws, and to justify and extenuate all crimes.

William Cullen Bryant, defending

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Rene Auberjonois

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Dylan Thomas