Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Jonathan Sacks

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Marshall McLuhan

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

Miranda Richardson

Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.

William Shakespeare

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

Jeff Bridges

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Erich Fromm

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Pete du Pont

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Albert Camus

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Ice T

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.

William Shakespeare