I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

Peter Drucker

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Thomas Aquinas

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Jimmy Carter

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Felix Alba-Juez

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Winnie the Pooh

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.

Source Unknown

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Peter Ustinov

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

Sue Grafton