The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

Walter Benjamin

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

Victoria Principal

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

America is too great for small dreams.

Ronald Reagan

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man was predestined to have free will.

Hal Luyah

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Levon Helm

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

Ellen Ochoa

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Christopher Lasch

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled myage in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm sixI'll be ninety.

Steven Wright

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

Kenneth Hare