When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

Gaspard Ulliel

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Georg Buchner

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian

Benjamin Franklin

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.

Bertrand Russell

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Appearances are deceptive.

Aesop

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Yiddish Proverb

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Bryant H. McGill

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Benjamin Franklin

Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.

Edmund Burke