The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill, from the

The road to a brighter humanity is though the minds of our children. We can either fill them with anger

Timothy Pina

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Abigail Van Buren

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true

Bertrand Russell

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Raquel Welch

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Samuel Johnson

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

John Keats

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gilmore Simms