If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire

For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.

Mark Hodder

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Mercy Otis Warren

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

George Lucas

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Vincent Voiture

You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor.

Theodore Roosevelt

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

Mark Hoppus

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Helen Gurley Brown

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

Donny Osmond

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

Thor Heyerdahl

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Heath Ledger