Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Source Unknown

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare

Lewis Morris

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

Henry David Thoreau

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

George Mason

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

William James

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

David Hume

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

Adam Lambert

Beauty of omission, of judgment.

Blaise Pascal

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Elbert Hubbard

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

Kevin McKidd

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Ernest Hemingway