The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary McCarthy

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Karl Von Clausewitz

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

Robert Plant

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Julian of Norwich

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Felix Adler

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann von Goethe

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Alfred Adler

One step at a time is good walking.

Chinese Proverb

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

James A. Froude

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

Danica McKellar

What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.

Caspar David Friedrich

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Elizabeth Smart