Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

Plato

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

J. C. Watts

I long for the solitude of a sunset at sea,and the chill of the breezecoming in with the eve.For the motion of my boat,as she swings on her rode,and the beauty of the stars,in the evenings last glow.

R.C. Gibbons, I Long

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

Andrea Martin

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Patrick J. Kennedy

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

Rae Carson

Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing.

Luigi Barzini

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charles Dickens

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

Gladys Taber

Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.

Dwight L. Moody

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer