The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Edmund Burke, speech on the peti

I speak of love that comes to mind:The moon is faithful, although blind;She moves in thought she cannot speak.Perfect care has made her bleak.I never dreamed the sea so deep,The earth so dark; so long my sleep,I have become another child.I wake to see the world go wild.

Allen Ginsberg, An Eastern Balla

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andrew Carnegie

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

Victor Hugo

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Andy Rooney

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Cleo Moore

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

Cordwainer Smith

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Helen Keller

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin