Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Jane Austen

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Jodi Picoult

the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.

Terry Pratchett

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Jason Mraz

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Jon Stewart

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Michel Foucault

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Steven Coallier