Come all good people far and near, Oh, come and see what you can hear.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Daniel Francois Esprit Auber

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

C.S. Lewis

A book that is shut is but a block.

Thomas Fuller

Feedom has never been free ... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

Medgar Evers, June 7, 1963

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.

Abraham Lincoln

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Carl Sagan

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Michel de Montaigne

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

Bill Nighy

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Live not by expectation, but by inspiration.

Louise Philippe Dulay

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez