A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

Susan Orlean

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Diane Abbott

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Zhuangzi

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

Thomas Jefferson

She isn't very clever or very devout,... and she certainly empties the whole salt cellar into the stories she tells me. But I love her because she never lies.

Georges Bernanos

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ray Manzarek

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

George Bernard Shaw