To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

C.S. Lewis

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Charles Eames

Forget yourself and go to work.

Bryant S. Hinckley

Only your friends steal your books

Voltaire

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

Lyman Frank Baum

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

James Anthony Froude

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

John Stuart Mill

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.

Voltaire

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Dickens

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Roland Joffe

When I go, I'm flying Air Bizarre. It's a good airline. Youbuy a one way round trip ticket. You leave any Monday, and theybring you back the previous Friday... That way you still havethe weekend.

Steven Wright

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Terry Jones