I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

Cassandra Clare

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

Michael Crichton

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

Samuel Johnson

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, speech befor

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

George Leonard

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

Anthony Hopkins

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

Gil Gerard

Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.

Christopher Hitchens

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

G. K. Chesterton