... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Freya Stark

People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one.

Louise Penny

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Nicholas Stern

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

Terry Pratchett

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Francis Bacon

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

Source Unknown

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Ernie Banks

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

Charlie Sheen

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.

Neil Gaiman

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

William Wordsworth