Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge

Banani Ray

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.

George Santayana, The Life of Re

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?

Emily Dickinson

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

George E. Brown, Jr.

Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.

Steve Maraboli

Love expands.

Hugh Prather

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

James Galway

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson