Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Edmund Burke

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

J.K. Rowling

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Roger Tory Peterson

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

Will Rogers

Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles de Gaulle

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon.

Anon.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Tom Hanks

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Thomas Merton, Love & Living

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

George Bush

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Jeremy Taylor