The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Ricky Williams

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

Hannah Arendt

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Thomas Fuller

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

George Bernard Shaw

Love, too, has to be learned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

Jim Edgar

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

Walter Salles

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton