Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Cassandra Clare

But what Kezia liked more than anything, what she liked frightfully, was the lamp. It stood in the middle of the dining-room table, an exquisite little amber lamp with a white globe. It was filled all ready for lighting, though, of course, you couldn't light it. But there was something inside that looked like oil and moved when you shook it. The father and mother dolls, who sprawled very stiff as though they had fainted in the drawing-room, and their two little children asleep upstairs, were really too big for the doll's house. They didn't look as though they belonged. But the lamp was perfect. It seemed to smile at Kezia, to say, 'I live here.' The lamp was real.

Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

Snoop Dogg

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

Proverb

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Lois Horowitz

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Edmund Burke

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Warren Earl Burger, Majority opi

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

Rowan Williams

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey