We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

E. M. Forster

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Sir William Temple

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel de Montaigne

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Horace

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

Leslie Nielsen

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Mead

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.

Source Unknown

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Daniel Hannan

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Carl Sagan