To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

—Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

—Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

—Bertrand Russell

One man with courage makes a majority.

—Andy and Larry Wachowski

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

—Andrew Jackson

Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

—André Gide

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

—Edward Gibbon

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

—Jan de Hartog