Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

Ayn Rand

The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.

Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstiern

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Orson Scott Card

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Lord Chesterfield

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

I hope the readers of this book may experience the same benevolent and elevating feeling which I have experienced when I was working on its creation, and which I experience again and again, when I reread it every day, working on the enlargement and improvement of the previous edition.

Leo Tolstoy

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Charles Dickens

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. De Mille

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Gary Cherone

The thought of two thousand people munching celery at the same time horrified me.

George Bernard Shaw

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln