The heart feels, the head compares.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

Some people think everyone should be the same as them:Look, dress, sound and act just like them.

Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.