The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

George Eliot

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Yogi Berra

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Tertullian

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.

Nicholas Sparks

Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.

Henry David Thoreau

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

Fred Durst

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Henry L. Stimson

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

Fawn M. Brodie

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Baudjuin

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Charles Olson

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Paul Wellstone

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Samuel Paterson