One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

Kevin Pietersen

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration... Existential frustration is neither pathological or pathogenic.

Viktor E. Frankl

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Theodore Parker

This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

Henry David Thoreau

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors.

Henry Adams

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

Melissa Bean

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Terry Pratchett

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton