Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thomas Jefferson

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Angus Wilson

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

Harvey Fierstein

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

Origen

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Louise Bernikow

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

Source Unknown

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Thomas J. Watson

The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those cities. We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. That's how a young person turns toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans toward the breast, without knowing the secret of its desire, yet turning instinctively. Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

Rumi, The Dream That Must Be Int

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

George Sand

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb