It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

Mark Helprin

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

Joan Welsh

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St.Francis Xavier

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Octavio Paz

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Gloria Steinem

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

James A. Baldwin

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann von Goethe

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Niels Bohr

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Rene Descartes