How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it! – J.N. Larned
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I dont think one can find any other time in ones life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. – Woodrow Wilson