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.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal

John Green

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Lord Chesterfield

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Mark Twain

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

Louis C. K.

What is all Knowledge too, but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials.

Thomas Carlyle

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

Mahatma Gandhi

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning

The government invented the Internet.

Jon Meacham

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Thomas Carlyle

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

Frank Tallis