If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

Kimbra

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

David Talbot

I was born to travel and write verse.

Theophile Gautier

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

Sadhu Vaswani

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

J.R.R. Tolkien

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Amar Bose

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

Johann Lamont

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward George BulwerLytton

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

Steven Wright

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Mark Twain