I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Simon Callow

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Frances E. Willard

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

John Selden

Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

Luke Salisbury

To know is to control.

Scott Reed

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; theyknow all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

George Eliot

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

Jon Heder

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

Albert Einstein

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

Morihei Ueshiba

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

Maya Angelou

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Billy Corgan