If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

Epictetus

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

George Bernard Shaw

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Nick Lampson

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

Jared Diamond

I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.

Natalie Babbitt

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

Source Unknown

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Solomon Schechter

I'm too old to know everything

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Carla Bruni