An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Theodore White

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

B. C. Forbes

And now I'm looking at you, he said, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

Cassandra Clare

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biolo

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Edward F. Halifax

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Pietro Metastasio

Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.

Steve Rapson