A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

Dale Dougherty

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

Anthony Wayne

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill

the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

Taylor Swift

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let reason govern desire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

Rob Sheffield

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Hale White

The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.

Anon.

How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.

James French

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin