So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

If by our sacrifice - yours and mine,' said Onos T'oolan, 'the pain of one life can be ended; if, by our deaths, this one can be guided home... we will judge this a worthy cause.

Steven Erikson

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

Despotism is a long crime.

Victor Hugo

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagoras

But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Jodi Picoult

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

William Cowper

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

William Shakespeare

I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

Love does whatever it does, whenever it wants to do it.

Camile Souza

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Samuel Johnson

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Abraham Lincoln