While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

Virginia Woolf

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Wayne Lukas

There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.

Toba Beta

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Sir Winston Churchill

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Henry Fielding

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

Stella McCartney

The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

Jim Ryun

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

Source Unknown

The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self.

Katha Upanishad

There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Lynd, Solomon in All His