The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

Go where your nose leads you

Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

It's a weapon we have, and we need all the weapons we can get

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

Justin Bieber is a douche bag. Now that I have your attention, let's talk about cars.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?