"Freedom is not defined by safety."
- Ron Paul

"It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas, and thinking."
- Gaston, "Beauty and the Beast"

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain


"I don't care what you believe in, just believe in it."
- Book, "Serenity"

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."
- William Shakespeare

"The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
- Socrates

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill

"Come to me all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
- Matthew 11: 28-30

"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies."
- Tom Riddle, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"


"Man is least himself when he wears his true face; give him a mask and he will show you who he truly is."
- Oscar Wilde

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
- Dorothy Bernard

"This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before, and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing."
- Sam, "Garden State"

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. "
- Thomas Jefferson

"Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends."
- Gandalf, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"

"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
- Charles de Montesquieu