There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Michel de Montaigne

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Sally Ride

If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist.

David Thomas

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Benjamin Franklin

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Tori Spelling

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.

Charles Darwin

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Thomas Frank

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Albert Einstein

I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

Jessica Szohr

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Francis Parker Yockey