Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Johann von Goethe

A moment's truthCan and shall make the world beautiful.A moment's peaceCan and shall save the world.A moment's loveCan and shall make the world perfect.

Sri Chinmoy

If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional individuals or identified with brilliance. In ordinary life creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience.

Thomas Moore, Care Of The Soul

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

Aubrey Beardsley

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Dennis Muren

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

J.B.S. Haldane

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Samuel Butler

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.)

C.S. Lewis

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Stephen King