Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, part 2

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

R. Kelly

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Robert A. Heinlein

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Maya Lin

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

May Sarton

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

Victor Hugo

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

Joey Santiago

Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives

Blaise Pascal

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

Constance Baker Motley

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

Dakota Fanning

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson