An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Samuel Johnson

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Wole Soyinka

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

Nicholas Sparks

The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea.

Isak Dinesen

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Barack Obama

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Billy Corgan

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

Germaine Greer

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Ken Follett

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Maximilien Robespierre

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Benjamin Disraeli

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

Gary Miller