Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

Robert Silverberg

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Alfred Jarry

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

Robert M. Maciver

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Donald Rumsfeld

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Orison Swett Marden

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

John Frusciante

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Cyril Connolly

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Ben Jonson

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

Ralph Waldo Emerson

on tolerance of gays: You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

Cyndi Lauper

Friendly counsel cuts off many foes

William Shakespeare