The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

Maimonides

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Walter Scott

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas A. Edison

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Harold S. Geneen

The empowered mind gravitates towards freedom and helps you break free of all limitations.

Steve Maraboli

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Jodi Picoult

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Rod Steiger

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always easy to penetrate. The real labor is to remember to attend. In fact to come awake. Still more to remain awake.

C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

Joel Madden

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper