New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Travis Barker

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Tony Campolo

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

Virginia Woolf

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

Cara Delevingne

[W]enn ihr nicht mit Liebe, sondern nur mit Widerwillen arbeiten könnt, lasst besser eure Arbeit [...] und nehmt Almosen von denen, die mit Freude arbeiten.

Kahlil Gibran

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of diversion and preference.

John Dewey, The Influence of Dar

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Bernard Baruch