There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.

When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.