Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

Sir Frederick Browning

I am nobody, even if I say I am this or that.

Santosh Kalwar

Her voice is full of money.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.

Source Unknown

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

Source Unknown

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

Bertrand Russell

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have l

Abraham Lincoln

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor

Thomas Carlyle

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Luis Gutierrez

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Li