I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Chris Robinson

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Francis Bacon, 1603

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

Lena Dunham

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Plato

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Christopher Hitchens

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Emeli Sande

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Hjalmar Branting

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Jean Racine