Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

Camille Anna Paglia

Mika: Were you happy?Hiro: I was so happy.

Ibuki Haneda

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

William Osler

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Aeschylus

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them

Abraham Lincoln

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Creighton Abrams

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Chuck Palahniuk

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Spiro T. Agnew