I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

Michael J. Fox

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant McGill

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life

Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, c

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Paris Hilton

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Pliny the Elder

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

David Ben-Gurion

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

E.E. Cummings

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Aristotle

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Lord Chesterfield

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of