God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.Each note is a need coming through one of us,a passion, a longing pain.Remember the lipswhere the wind-breath originated,and let your note be clear.Don't try to end it.Be your note.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

Oliver Herford

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

Ray Comfort

Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

David Walliams

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

Edward Witten

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Henry Miller

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Neil Gaiman

It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.

Cupcake Brown

The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.

Leonard Neal

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

Glenn Tipton