Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.

Thomas Jefferson

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, longbows and handgrenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon so long as there is no answer to it gives claws to the weak.

George Orwell

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

Walid Jumblatt

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

John Wanamaker

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Caleb Bingham

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Alan King

Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.

Mark Foley

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Marcel Proust