When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

J.K. Rowling

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Roland Barthes

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.

Jim Rohn

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

this is a book about something

C.S. Lewis

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

William Butler Yeats

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

Suze Orman

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

Hilary Swank

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Stephen King