One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there with no help except curiosity and the will to learn that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined permanently blocked as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates the greater the effect on our health weight and well-being.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Jail didn't make me find God He's always been there. They can lock me up but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.