Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Victor eyed the glistening tubes in the tray around Dibbler's neck. They smelled appetizing. They always did. And then you bit into them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

Terry Pratchett

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

C.S. Lewis

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Spike Milligan

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

Frank Luntz

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

L. Schefer

Education is the development of power and ideal.

W. E. B. Du Bois

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

Norman Vincent Peale

Everybody thinks they want to see the truth, said Tenkswa-Tawa. That's one of the lies we tell ourselves.

Orson Scott Card

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

Tom Petty

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

Moby

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

Talcott Parsons