The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

Ron Silver

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Newton's law of gravity implies absolute time.

Albert Einstein

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Yiddish Proverb

This work deals with a very obvious truth: just as the oppressor, in order to oppress, needs a theory of oppressive action, so the oppressed, in order to become free, also need a theory of action.

Paulo Freire

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

Harry Shearer

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Hugh Walpole

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Carl Jung

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Oscar Wilde

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

G. K. Chesterton, A Hymn (first

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heinrich Heine