Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Aneurin Bevan

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Donald Knuth

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Eric Liu

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

Michael Bergin

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

Terry Pratchett

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong

Of two evils, choose neither.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steve Biko

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Richard Rorty

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Alexis de Tocqueville