The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Leo Rosten

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Benjamin Franklin

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Alexander Chase

Life is a sum of all your choices.

Albert Camus

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

Dave Eggers

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Elie Wiesel

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

P.K. Shaw

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

Angela Lambert

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Henry David Thoreau

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Stephen Fry

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Vaclav Havel

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett