Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Mary Augusta Ward

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Dennis Prager

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Thomas Jane

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

Eva Gabor

No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big.

Source Unknown

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

Jane Pauley

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

Michael Gambon

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Jeanette Winterson

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken