Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal

We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive.

Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.

Children ... smile as many as 400 times per day.

We were put on this earth to make things.