If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Anthony Storr

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

Gertrude Jekyll

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Robert Sternberg

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

Jose Marti

Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.

Mark Twain

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Joe Biden

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

Albert Einstein

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Henry David Thoreau

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Charles Hare

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

Woody Allen, My Speech to the Gr

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Guillaume Apollinaire