Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Style is the image of character.

Edward Gibbon

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Elbert Hubbard

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Little Richard

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert G. Ingersoll

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank

To generous souls every task is noble.

Euripides

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O Douglas

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

David Brin

You get paid to impact the world, not be impacted by it.

Mal Pancoast