Love is blind.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.

Jane Austen

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

Lou Brock

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Aron Nimzowitsch

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I think you're working and learning until you die.

J. K. Rowling

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

J.K. Rowling

It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson