He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Neil Gaiman

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Thomas Gray

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. C. Benson, The Upton Letters

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Mitt Romney

You speak metaphorically, I hope, said Peggy. I hope not, said Becca. Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Orson Scott Card

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Jackie Chan

If love dies, that's when we've all truly died.

Keary Taylor