History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.

Samuel Butler

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Christina Ricci

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Walt Whitman

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'

Demetri Martin

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Edmund Burke

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Samuel Levenson

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

In wine there is truth

Roman Proverb

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Jim Hunt

When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence So sweet is zealous contemplation.

William Shakespeare