How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Galileo Galilei

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Bono

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

Mark Twain

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.

Fredrich

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Eugenio Montale

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.

Michael Kors

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner, The Spectator B

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S. Truman