This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Richard M. Nixon

Cherish youth, but trust old age.

American Indian Proverb, Pueblo

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Michel de Montaigne

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Woodrow Wilson

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

Charles Van Doren

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Benjamin Disraeli

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

“Nothing is more fruitful for man than the knowledge of his own shortcomings.”

Abdu'l-Baha

They're a different generation, those kids kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube.

Frank Black

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Chamfort

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Friedrich Nietzsche