Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

John Green

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

Mindy Kaling

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Victor Hugo

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Charles Eastman

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Alexander Herzen

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Robin Williams

God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Mark Twain

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came

Peter De Vries

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.

Christopher Hitchens