Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the blind see

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

William Cowper

Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Peter Erskine

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

Sigmund Freud

Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

Jeremy Aldana

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Paul Theroux

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Tacitus

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato