The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Aldous Huxley

What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin to love itAnd have to begin again?What is it within our own lives we decline to liveWhenever we find it, making our days unendurable,And nights almost visionless?I still don't know yet, but I do it.

Charles Wright

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury

I don't have the best dating track record.

Lauren Conrad

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Mary Augusta Ward

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

The Talmud

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Tim Bishop

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Emo Philips

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Henri Alain