No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.

... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.

If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.

If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.

I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

Silence does good to the soul.