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

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Billy Sunday

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

E. M. Forster

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Charles Stanley

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Thomas Huxley

Life is not merely being alive, but being well

Marcus Aurelius

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Cyril Cusack

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar N. Bradley