My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty

Bertrand Russell

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Robert Bresson

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Thomas Menino

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Henry Bolingbroke

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.

Jon Krakauer

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

Daniel Craig

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

Ernest Shackleton

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.

Jimmy Carter

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker