No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

Jack White

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

C.S. Lewis

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Gautama Buddha

Opportunities? They are all around us...There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Orison Swett Marden

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Thomas Jefferson

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Blaise Pascal

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

R. Foreman

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Augustine of Hippo

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Thom Yorke

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Tertullian