Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's? ...If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing.

We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part of such post-2012 arrangements.