"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." — Dylan Thomas

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." — Francesco Guicciardini

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." — Daniel J. Boorstin

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason." — Charles Darwin

"Words are but pictures of our thoughts." — John Dryden

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves." — Robert Quillen

"Doubt is the father of invention." — Ambrose Bierce

"Man - a being in search of meaning." — Plato