"History is filled with the sound of..." - Quote by Voltaire

“The road to the heart is the ear”

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”

“The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.”

“It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.”

“The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.”

“The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”

“When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.”

“... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”

“I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.”