He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Charles de Montesquieu

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Thomas Traherne

He was defeated 2000 years ago though there's many that feel that he is The Lord and that they will succeed.

James Dye

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Thomas Jefferson

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

Craig Charles

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

William James

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Leigh Hunt

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Thomas Dolby

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Rip Torn

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

H. G. Bissinger