In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Henry David Thoreau

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all. Bourgeois life on the whole seemed to me pedantic.

KaThe Kollwitz

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

C.S. Lewis

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Bill Bradley

For a mother is the only person on earth Who can divide her love among ten children And each child still have all her love.

Anon.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

William Blake

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Mariska Hargitay

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Dan Rather

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Leo Tolstoy

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Carolyn Wells