While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's Republic, I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Ralph Boston

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Bear Grylls

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Byron White

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Samantha Barks

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.

Sir Thomas More

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein

The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled.

Oliver Goldsmith, Deserted Villa

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

Stephen King

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato