Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

the one that can hurt you the most are the one that you really love

Salman Aditya

A satellite has no conscience.

Edward R. Murrow

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

Stephen Moyer

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Richard Dawkins

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Oscar Wilde

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Thomas Jefferson

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

Paulo Coelho

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle