Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Michael Bloomberg

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Paul Whiteman

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

Natalie Angier

Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Pete Seeger

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Gaston Bachelard

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Your real self -- the I am I -- is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Robert Collier

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Michael Ende

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Barbara Castle

An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support

Aldous Huxley

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

A.J. Jacobs