Each of us wrestles with the dark giant in our own way.
—Connie Zweig (American Minister)
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault (French Philosopher)
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
—Thomas De Witt Talmage (American Presbyterian Clergyman)
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
—Theodore Dreiser (American Novelist, Journalist)
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
—C. P. Snow (British Novelist, Scientist)
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
—M. C. Richards (American Poet, Potter, Writer)
Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.
—Karl Leberecht Immermann (German Novelist, Dramatist)
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
—Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)
Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
—David Puttnam (British Film Producer)
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
—Franklin P. Adams (American Columnist)
Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.
—Victor Kiam (American Entrepreneur)
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of those liberties which make the defense of the nation worthwhile.
—Earl Warren (American Judge)
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
—Mikhail Lermontov (Russian Novelist, Poet)