True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Henry David Thoreau

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Virgil

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

John Yoo

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

William Ellery Channing

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Malcolm De Chazal

Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.

Jon Krakauer

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Sir Richard Steele

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.

Kristen Heitzmann

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams.

Paulo Coelho

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche