Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Aldous Huxley

Their story, yours and mine -- it

William Carlos Williams

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake.

Rabindranath Tagore

Art must take reality by surprise.

Francoise Sagan

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Heinrich Suso

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Jimmy Cannon

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

I love to read aloud.

Cornelia Funke

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

Leo Tolstoy

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Saskya Pandita

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Kevin Kelly