Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Please don't obsess on the number of friends i have or don't have. I'll find my own way, it will be right for me.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment -daniel grigori (fallen)

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.