Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly which is done in pride.
John Ruskin
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Doug Coupland
Neither a wise man, nor a brave man, lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is tragic, simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day for each of us the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James Arthur Baldwin
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months, but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw
