I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Alan Bennett

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Les Brown

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Julie Walters

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion

Sylvia Plath

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Alice Cooper

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Antonio Banderas

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Thomas Merton

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Walter Bagehot

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

Michel de Montaigne