The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Robert Wyatt

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

William Lippmann

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

Chris Webber

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Charles Kingsley

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Mark Twain

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

Jodi Picoult

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Anne Bronte

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel, Nobel lecture, Oslo

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Hugh Maclennan

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Gertrude Stein