I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry A. Kissinger

What are world needs is not more violence, hatred and injustice that keeps consuming mankind but love,peace and justice for all of humanity to bask in.

Timothy Pina

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

Albert Einstein

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside us as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way. And that's just what we do find inside us.

C.S. Lewis

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Georg Brandes

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth. Architecture aims at Eternity.

Sir Christopher Wren

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk