I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Spring and Fall: To a Young ChildMárgarét, are you gríevingOver Goldengrove unleaving?Leáves, líke the things of man, youWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?Ah! ás the heart grows olderIt will come to such sights colderBy and by, nor spare a sighThough worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;And yet you wíll weep and know why.Now no matter, child, the name:Sórrow's spríngs áre the same.Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressedWhat heart heard of, ghost guessed:It ís the blight man was born for,It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

Barbara Delinsky

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Rick Warren

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Mark Twain

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John Locke

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

Drew Brees

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken,and yet the cold blue word is spoken:say goodbye now to the Sun,the days of love and leaves are done.

R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) C

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach