We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

Albert Camus

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana, The Life of Re

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Fran Lebowitz

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

St. Francis De Sales

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Alexander Herzen

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

Show respect for all men, but grovel to none.

American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Sir Robin Day

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Harriet Martineau

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

John Green