If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Maria Mitchell

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Thomas Carlyle

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

John D. Rockefeller

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

Frank Tipler

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Andrew Motion

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

David Suzuki

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

Rutherford B. Hayes

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.

Ruben Askew

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adve

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill