History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother

Voltaire

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us

William Shakespeare

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Tim Allen

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

He full of bashfulness and truth, Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.

Torquato Tasso

There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

John Dickson

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Michael Lewis

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

Stephen King