Change is the end result of all true learning.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Daniel Wallace

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Rowan Williams

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

Terry Pratchett

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.

Munshi Premchand

My sex life is terrible, my wife put a mirror over the dogs bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.

Rodney Dangerfield

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani DiFranco

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Rene Descartes

Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Ronald Reagan