I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Thomas Jefferson

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

Christopher Hitchens

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Alan Moore

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Christopher Plummer

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin

Thomas Jefferson

...loveliness is the Milky Way... but also all the myriad points of radiance streaming from your beauty...

John Geddes

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Robert Owen

Educated risks are the key to success.

William Olsten

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Cyril Connolly

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Angeline M. Bishop