Education is the transmission of civilization.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

Alan Dean Foster

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Douglas William Jerrold

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Elihu Root

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Lindsey Graham

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart

W.B. Yeats

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Bainbridge Colby

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

Horatio Nelson

My father was stupid. He worked in a bank and they caught him stealing pens.

Rodney Dangerfield

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein