In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Where Mercy Love and Pity dwellThere God is dwelling too.
William Blake
One can know a man from his laugh and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
John Dewey
Montreal is a very cosmopolitan sophisticated erudite educated glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
William Shatner
Most people including myself keep repeating the same mistakes.
William Shatner
When we think of the major threats to our national security the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores one from nature not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
John W. Gardner
