Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Albert Camus

truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Winston Churchill

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Thomas Adams

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny him with their life style. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.band: dc Talk; album: Jesus Freak; used in the prelude to the song What If I Stumble?

Brennan Manning

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

Carl Sagan

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Jesse Jackson

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Peter Drucker

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.

George M. Adams