An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

William R. Alger

Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the tenderness he showed me was life-giving water.

Colleen Houck

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Dorothy Day

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Edward Tufte

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Khalil Gibran

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths:

Will Durant

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Jared Diamond

Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.

George Lundberg

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

Patty Duke

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

David K. Shipler

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Bob Iger

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob August Riis