Books are humanity in print.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Most of the humans are ineffective creatures. They are the source of pollutions

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on it, if you want something bad enough, nothing can stop you.

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.

I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I had no idea which joke I was telling. So I told jokes twice. I even told that one twice.

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.