Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

John Williamson

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Jon Meacham

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Niccolo Machiavelli

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

Willie Morris

In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.

Peter Kendall

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Henry David Thoreau

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

Pliny the Elder

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Hillary Clinton

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Eric Bana

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Blaise Pascal