“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and author

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your
understanding.”

—Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet, in The Prophet

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

—Edward Hopper, painter

“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the
question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells
one it is right.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader

“Either war is obsolete or men are.”

—R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, in The New Yorker, 1966

“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”

—Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury

“A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to
decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't
think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We
have to do both, save and savor the world.”

—Kate Clinton, comedian

"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."

—J. Paul Getty, American industrialist

“If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

—Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian author