In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

G. W. F. Hegel

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Michael Winner

Homo homini monstrum

Victor Hugo

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education

Paul Karl Feyerabend

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

John Hersey

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

Donna Lynn Hope

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

Morris West

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

Benjamin Franklin

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

James Wyatt

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

John Howe