A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Benjamin Franklin

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

Daniel H. Wilson

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

J.K. Rowling

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

Ambrose Bierce

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Herman Hesse

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

James De La Vega

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Umberto Eco

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin