What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Elbert Hubbard

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Robert Ley

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Maria Montessori

From pride, from pride, our very reasPoetical Works Alexander Pope. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.

Jean Claude Van Damme

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Karl Lagerfeld

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft

You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.

Scott Sorrell

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Elijah Wood