It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,

John Stuart Mill, "First publish

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Danny Glover

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel de Cervantes

In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be.

J.C. Marino

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Richter

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Andrew Jackson

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Kurt Vonnegut

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Casablancas

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

Allison Janney

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Arthur Schopenhauer