This twofold nature of man is so evident that some have thought that we had two souls. A single subject seemed to them incapable of such sudden variations from unmeasured presumption to a dreadful dejection of heart.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

Tony Benn

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief

William Shakespeare

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Arthur C. Clarke

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard. You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore? May you know it yet ten more.

John Crowe Ransom

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Robert. L. Ehrlich

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Malcolm Mclaren

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Tadao Ando

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoover

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Plato