I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

John Keegan

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Nicholas Negroponte

All I know is just what I read in the papers.

Will Rogers

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

Morley Safer

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor

Thomas Carlyle

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

William Mathews

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Keith Miller

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

P. J. Harvey

I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

David Fincher

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

John Calvin