Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country.

Thomas Jefferson

Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Neal A. Maxwell

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

David Miliband

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us

Albert Einstein

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Elia Kazan

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Parker Stevenson

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire