Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

Donald Knuth

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Thomas Malthus

The greatest enemy to fear is truth.

Steve Maraboli

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Emily Dickinson

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

James A. Baldwin

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Charles Horton Cooley

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas C. Haliburton

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

James Hillman

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

James Patterson

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach

Mark Twain

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

Jane Austen