"All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet"
— Edith Hamilton

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
— Anatole France

"Integrity has no need of rules."
— Albert Camus

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
— George Eliot

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
— Charles Dickens

"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork"
— Pearl Bailey

""There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.""
— Suyin Han

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
— Danny Kaye

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
— Victor Hugo

"There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then."
— Clare Booth Luce

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
— Victor Borge

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
— A. A. Milne

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members"
— Pearl S. Buck

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

"It is higher and nobler to be kind."
— Mark Twain

"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand."
— Mark Twain

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
— Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations)

"I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying."
— Robert Redford

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
— Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery: An Autobiography)

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
— André Gide