Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Bo Bennett, Year to Success

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Vera Farmiga

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

John B. S. Haldane

Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother

Voltaire

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

John McLaughlin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.

Jan Patocka

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson

Far too many people on the spectrum spend most of their days with people who carry around memories of, and are often too overwhelmed by incidents of, prior misinterpretation. This is no fun. In travel you can start over, and reinvent yourself. If somehow a relationship gets weird, you can leave and go to the next town, the next block, or whatever the case may be, and try again.

Michael John Carley

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .

Graham Greene