Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.

H. L. Mencken

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

William Blake

Dreams are free.

Source Unknown

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Anton Chekhov

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Anthony Horowitz

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Lord Chesterfield

I've got no education.

Andrea Arnold

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

Billy Tauzin

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Karen Armstrong

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

Matthew Rhys

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft