A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

Robin D. Hart

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

Blaise Pascal

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Leo Strauss

Someone said that inflation is like jumping off the top of the Empire State Building. The sensation is great as long as you keep on going.

David H. Scott

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Paul Rand

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

John Green

Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.

Virginia Woolf

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Floyd Abrams

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Alice Walker