The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

Albert Camus

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Dorothy Day

You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?

Carrie Ryan

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...

William Shakespeare

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

Cassandra Clare

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

Pearl Buck, A Bridge for Passing

I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

William Hogarth

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

Rick Perry

We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create.

Bertrand Russell