The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

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

Books are humanity in print.

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.

This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world.

Fans are giving me instant feedback on a chat box. I keep my fans close by working collectively as a unit. I figure as long as I do that, I can't lose. I use the internet as much as possible.

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye

If they break your heart, break their bones

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

I have a confession: I have no faith.