Behrend Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. — Bertrand Russell

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same. — Marjane Satrapi

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought. — Eckhart Tolle

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true. — Laozi

If that was not enough, Franklin also kept his exhausted younger cohort awake far into the night with an interminable disquisition on colds. — John Ferling