Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

Martin Buber

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

Anna Deavere Smith

To him who, in the love of Nature, holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.

William Cullen Bryant, Thanatops

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

Leon Trotsky

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Sir Philip Sidney

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

Gene Tierney

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Johann von Goethe

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Eric Hoffer

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

Peter Andre