""No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed."
- Helen Keller

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
- Will Rogers

" Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
- Benjamin Franklin

"When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
- Anonymous

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get."
- William Feather

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
- Charles W. Eliot

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
- Sigmund Freud

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
- Elie Wiesel

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
- Pericles

"He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- W. B. Yeats

"Regrets of yesterday & the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob you of today."
- Unknown

"After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done."
- Unknown

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw

 

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
- Edward De Bono

 

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."
- Albert Camus

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
- Robert Frost

"I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
- T.S. Eliot

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." - Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), British theologian and classicist

"An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get."
- William Feather

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Democracies are most commonly corrupted by the insolence of demagogues."
- Aristotle

"When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right (or then the mind sees right); when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world."
- Confucius

"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
- Benjamin Disraeli