The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Paul Tournier

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Sophocles

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

G. K. Chesterton

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.

John McCarthy

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Prince Pyotr Kropotkin

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

George Eliot

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Linda Hunt

Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.

Russell Brand

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

John Travolta

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Roy Romer