Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. -Thomas Szasz-

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever. -Dan Quayle-

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. -Abraham Lincoln-

War is certainly a shock when you first face it in its stark nakedness. -Robert Ellis-

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein-

When the opposite sex is involved, you have to expect a certain amount of inconsistent and idiotic behavior. -Ward Cleaver, “Leave It To Beaver”-

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no dissenters, we should still be living in caves. -A.J.P. Taylor-

After the Internet and GPS, the greatest thing the entire human race ever accomplished may be the merger of Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts.

The future should be important to you. That’s where you’ll spend the rest of your life. -Grandma, “Hi and Lois”-