God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

Robert Wagner

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

George Orwell

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Charles Stanley

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Toni Morrison

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

Shimon Peres

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

English Proverb

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

Jonathan Kozol

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

Margaret Spellings