For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us -- dollars and all.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Love and reason keep little company together

William Shakespeare

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Jean Piaget

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Michael Badnarik

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams

We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that.

Roma Downey