Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1)...

He comes into my city, he throws away my people, he orders me around like I'm his servant and now this? How dare he!I sighed. How dare he! came out. Could Does he know who I am? be far behind?I'm not...

Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have an...

Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.Harry: We're the same age, Draco.Draco: I wear it better.

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion

A citizen is no greater than his ideology,no cleverer than his intellect,no nobler than his aspirations, and no stronger than his opinions.A nation is no greater than its consciousness,no richer than...

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.And tha...

He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful.-It was stupid.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving...

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

To undo a Jew is charity and not sin.

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.