Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

G. K. Chesterton

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.

Wayne Gretzky

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

Studs Terkel

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

Vincent Frank

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Joseph J. Ellis

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Eric Hoffer

I hold it true, whateer befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.

Proverb