Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Alexis de Tocqueville

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Miguel de Cervantes

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Philip Greenspun

Nature abhors annihilation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Marcel Proust

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Richard Russo

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Orson Scott Card

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Will Rogers

It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.

Diana Nyad

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

Richard Garnett

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley

Liqueurs were not lacking; but the coffee especially deserves mention. It was as clear as crystal, aromatic and wonderfully hot; but, above all, it was not handed around in those wretched vessels called cups on the left banks of the Seine, but in beautiful and capacious bowls, into which the thick lips of the reverend fathers plunged, engulfing the refreshing beverage with a noise that would have done honor to sperm-whales before a storm.

JeanAnthelme BrillatSavarin, The