The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

I have lived my life as best I could, not knowing its purpose, but drawn forward like a moth to a distant moon; and here at last, I discover a strange truth. That I am only a conduit, for a message that eludes my understanding.

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.

Abraham Lincoln

My mom was tough.

Tiger Woods

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Richard Dawkins

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Boris Becker

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Charles Darwin

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

Paul Farmer

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Willa Cather

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Irving Layton