You want quotes? Well, here are a "few"
from my own quote database (there are plenty more, believe it or not!). They reveal many things about me, actually. Hope you aren't too bored...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Beyond wrongdoing and rightdoing there's a field:
I'll meet you there.
- Rumi
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1889-1951)
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-Peter De Vries, novelist (1910-1993)
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
-Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
-Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
-Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet (1636-1711)
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
-Nelson Mandela
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
-Paulo Freire, educator (1921-1997)
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
-Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
-Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (1942- )
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (1800-1859)
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And, certainly my favorite quote for quite some time, applicable to just about everything in life, including Wal-Mart's "low prices"... 
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)