His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Robert Collier

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion

Norman Angell

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

Woody Allen

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

George W. Bush

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

George R. R. Martin

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

Lewis Carroll

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Mark Twain

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Thomas Carlyle

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder