The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

Tessa leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins: he could not feel her skin, only the cloth of the gloves, and yet it did not matter. How you have kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning: the conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer. You are good, Will, she said. There is no one better placed than I am to be able to say with perfect confidence how good you really are.

Cassandra Clare

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

Marion Cotillard

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer

As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.

Marshall McLuhan

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

Betty Friedan

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Source Unknown

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

Ludwig von Mises

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Benjamin Disraeli