The work of art is a scream of freedom.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Henry David Thoreau

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

Source Unknown

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

Rachel Bilson

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

William Cowper

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

Benjamin Franklin

Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And, years later tell how they stood for hours in the cold rain just to catch a glimpse of the one who taught them to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us who keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.

Alvin Sargent, SpiderMan 2

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

George Eliot

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C.S. Lewis

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Italian Proverb