Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

If you think you're under pressure, you're probably not, because when you really are, you don't even have time to think about it.

Ron De Jonge

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Henry David Thoreau

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

Stephen King

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

Andrew Shue

Une religion, par exemple, qui doit être transformée en savoir historique, une religion qui doit être étudiée de part en part scientifiquement, une fois cette étape franchie, sera par l? même détruite. Toute vérificatiuon historique amène au jour tant de choses fausses, grossières, inhumaines, absurdes, violentes que, forcément, se dissipe l'atmosphère d'illusion pieuse où tout ce qui a le désir de vivre peut seul prospérer.Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 7

Friedrich Nietzsche

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

Mitt Romney

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand

Rabindranath Tagore

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Bierce

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Thomas Jefferson

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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