What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell: Life of

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

Suzanne Fields

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Samuel Smiles

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

Natan Sharansky

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

Harold Klemp

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

Gale Norton

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

Haruki Murakami

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Vernon Howard

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Joyce Cary

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Voltaire

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Oliver Cromwell