The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Amanda Beard

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

George W. Bush

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Source Unknown

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

Henry David Thoreau

We can only change the world by changing men.

Charles Wells

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

John Green

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Christopher Morley

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Martin Luther

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

John Muir

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

Damien Rice