Ariel Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.