France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson

The good and wise lead quite lives

Euripides

One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.

Source Unknown

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

Hulagu Khan

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Johnson

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

John Naisbitt

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

John Green

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Chuck Daly