Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

John Cameron

We need to learn and embrace patience. Patience is a holy key that will unlock the door to a more fulfilling life. Behind the blessed door of patience are found better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, wise masters, and a more compassionate world.

Steve Maraboli

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Richard Wagner

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Christopher Hill

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Paulo Coelho

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Margaret Sanger

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Steven Wright

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

David Lloyd George

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

Alan Shepard

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Nicole Kidman

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson