No man ever originates anything.No man ever originates anything.

— Mark Twain

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A democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals.A democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about “man's search for God.”Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about “man's search for God.”

— C. S. Lewis

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And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

— William Shakespeare

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The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

— Albert Einstein

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You can’t see straight when you hate.You can’t see straight when you hate.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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In political life I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed.In political life I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Need is so near greed and we are so greedy already that it seems a strange grace.Need is so near greed and we are so greedy already that it seems a strange grace.

— C. S. Lewis

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