In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Mark Twain

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Simone Weil

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Hippocrates

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

John Ralston Saul

I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

Andrea Riseborough

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Oscar Wilde

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

Simon Winchester