they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Albert Schweitzer

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

William Howard Taft

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Vince Lombardi

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

The best fiction is true.

Kinky Friedman

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Italo Calvino

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Arnold Newman