The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feelings. And if you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.

John Fowles, The Magus

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Christopher McDougall

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

Patricia Briggs

There is an unlimited amount of power to be found in simplicity. Keep your intent and action simple and the doors of success, happiness, and abundance will fly open for you.

Steve Maraboli

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

Chaske Spencer

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!

H.R. Haldeman

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees.

Terry Pratchett

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

Mike Fitzpatrick

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Thomas Carlyle