Quotations

“We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.”

Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Signed July 4, 1776

“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”
- Thomas Carlyle

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
- Thomas Paine

“Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.”
- William Bridges

"If ethics were easy, everyone would be a saint. The real test of character is whether you do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay."
- Michael Josephson

“The problem of liberal/conservative bias (in the news media) is a red herring. The real bias is toward laziness, toward entertainment, toward confrontation, toward that which will drive the ratings. The real story is this incredible laziness. It seems like the whole institution has lost its way.”

David Javerbaum
Head writer for “The Daily Show”
Quoted in The Holmes Report
Monday, May 30, 2005

"Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why."
- Eric Gill

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
- Niccolò Machiavelli

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison

"The only things we keep permanently are those we give away."
- Waite Phillips

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
- Albert Einstein

"Only entropy comes easy."
- Anton Chekhov

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”
- Max Mueller

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.”
- Native American proverb