Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

A journey is time suspended.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

Your dreams of today will create your future.

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

If you are too busy to exercise, you are too busy.

When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.