"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on Love
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"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration."

Harding, Warren Gamaliel on Solutions
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"And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Silence
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"The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute."

Baudelaire, Charles on Arts and Artists
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"It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair."

Baudelaire, Charles on Love
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"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find."

Baudelaire, Charles on Lovers
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"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."

Roddenberry, Gene on Atheism
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"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."

Paine, Thomas on Religion
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"Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us."

Paine, Thomas on Character
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on Advice
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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Henry David on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on Distrust
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on Death and Dying
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"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life."

Fromm, Erich on The future
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"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."

Lawrence, D. H. on Decadence
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"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away"

Mulock, Dinah on Comfort
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on Comfort
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"The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will."

Haggai, John on God
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Teachers and Teaching
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Teachers and Teaching
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"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."

Bagehot, Walter on Teachers and Teaching
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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

Bloom, Allan on Teachers and Teaching
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

Aristotle on Beauty
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"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Teachers and Teaching
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"The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."

Gibran, Kahlil on Teachers and Teaching
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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

Ward, William A. on Teachers and Teaching
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

Bacon, Francis on Beauty
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"The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Beauty
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"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."

Farquhar, George on Teachers and Teaching
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on Change
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"We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Justice
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

Churchill, Winston on Justice
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"There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court."

Darrow, Clarence on Justice
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"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."

Diderot, Denis on Justice
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"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on Justice
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"Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts."

Russell, Foster M. on Justice
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"Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it."

Steinem, Gloria on Justice
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"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on Cries and Crying
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"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

Luther, Martin on Marriage
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"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us."

Luther, Martin on Music
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