There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

If you keep chasing your dreams, one day you'll catch them.

Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

Its just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!