The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Aristotle

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott

Artists walk alone.

Ezra Miller

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Derek Jarman

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde

You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.

George Washington

Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

J.K. Rowling

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

Kevin Rudd

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Arabic Proverb

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

William Arthur Ward