Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

Samuel Goldwyn

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Rebecca West

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

Victor Hugo

Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.

Douglas Wood

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Barry Lopez

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison

In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.

Proverb

If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!

Toba Beta