I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Elias Canetti

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Charles Dickens

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

Eva Ibbotson

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Mason Cooley

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

Gertrude Jekyll

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann von Goethe

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

Marco Rubio

under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out.

Cassandra Clare

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Ken Keyes Jr.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Hannah Arendt