"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson
“Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.”

Source : International Herald Tribune, May 11, 1978.
“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.”
“I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.”
“I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”
“I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.”
“Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.”
“You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.”

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