In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Time is something you can't replace.

Nadine Gordimer

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

George Lloyd

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Neil Peart

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

Karl Weick, Social Psychology of

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Jodi Picoult

For we who live to please must please to live

Samuel Johnson

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

Harry Browne

I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.

Harold Ford

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Molly Ivins

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. On her beauty pageant days

Halle Berry

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

William Shakespeare