The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Edmund Burke

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

John Locke

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Tom Petty

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Nelson Mandela

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

Kary Mullis

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

Terry Pratchett

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Robert Collier

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

John Keats

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

John Dickinson