What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Stanislav Grof

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Lewis H. Lapham

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Emily Bronte

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Hillary Clinton

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

R. Scott Richards

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

Steve Case

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground

Samuel Johnson

You aint a beauty but hey you're all right

Bruce Springsteen

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.

Rachel Carson

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberger

I put &pound150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back &pound1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Jeffrey Archer