We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Paul Nurse

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

David O. Selznick

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Oliver Goldsmith

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

Willie Stargell

It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

Paul McEuen

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Ethel Watts Mumford

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Oscar Wilde

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

Cecelia Ahern

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

Stephen Richards

That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. I see no reason why our dear Cecily should not be even still more attractive at the age you mention than she is at present. There will be a large accumulation of property.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of B

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

Natan Sharansky