"I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them."

“Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.”

Source : Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.2

“I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.”

“God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.”

“Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature of humility. Submission to the dictates of humility formerly was made palatable to man by the doctrine of grace; that elaborate doctrine has been overwhelmed by modern presumption.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.364, Open Road Media

“Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account.”

Source : "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 863), January 5, 2012.

“We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.”

“The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.”

“Be - fight - feel the pain - and love the wounds!”

Source : "Vox Posthuma". Poem by Antoni Lange, 1895.