Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

Source Unknown

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

Natalie Wood

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

George Will

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Richard G. Scott

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Lady Bird Johnson

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Oskar Schindler

...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.

Paul Klee

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor --because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

Angela Y. Davis

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Eva Young