The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Henry Ward Beecher

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

feminism is for everybody

Bell Hooks

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

Marguerite Moreau

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Caroline Kennedy

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

Paulo Coelho

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Orson Scott Card

After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).

Gerhard Kocher

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

Joseph Conrad

Words alike flames, they burn. leaving nothing, not even blood, but ashes, which are never identified, never retraceable and ridiculously impossible to be put back together again.

Charles Adrian Pacis