He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

Cheryl Tiegs

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Ibrahim Babangida

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

Karen Thompson Walker

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

Nicholas Kristof

In dreams begins responsibility.

William Butler Yeats

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Bruce Jackson

The TRUTH is...If more men would rise up and speak against domestic violence, there would be less(V.A.W.)Violence Against Women in our world! Why Should they? Because 1 is 2 many! Any violence is too much.

Timothy Pina

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Oscar Wilde

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jose Mourinho