...but Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Proverb

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

Haruki Murakami

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Pythagoras

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

Chief Joseph

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Bill Cosby

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

Lord Chesterfield

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Richard Dawkins

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

Jenny McCarthy

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand