Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are so many charlatans in the world of education. They teach for a couple of years, come up with a few clever slogans, build their websites, and hit the lecture circuit. In this fast-food-society, simple solutions to complex problems are embraced far too often. We can do better. I hope that people who read this book realize that true excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. After all, there are no shortcuts.

Rafe Esquith

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through that shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?

Stephen King

The ability to passionately express opposing opinions is the greatest sign of a healthy democracy.

Steve Maraboli

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

Peter Singer

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Arthur Pine

If this phrase of the balance of power is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

John Bright

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Paul Bremer

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman