Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Meagan Earls

It is a fantastic letter. Very understated. He calls it an optical maser, it's as if a maser was made to run in the optical. No flamboyant phrase, just straightforward science.

Peter Franken

Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.

Eric Allenbaugh

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John C. Lilly

To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Woody Allen

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Benjamin Franklin

The money will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.

Terry Pratchett

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Cesare Pavese

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

Walter Benjamin

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Adlai E. Stevenson

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

Bear Grylls