Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

God is the Unique, and he is so perfect that he does not resemble any of the things that exist or any of the things that do not; you cannot describe him using your human intelligence, as if he were someone who becomes angry if you are bad or worries about you out of goodness, someone who has a mouth, ears, face, wings, or that is spirit, father or son, not even of himself. Of the Unique you cannot say he is or is not, he embraces all but is nothing; you can name him only through dissimilarity, because it is futile to call him Goodness, Beauty, Wisdom, Amiability, Power, Justice, it would be like calling him Bear, Panther, Serpent, Dragon, or Gryphon, because whatever you say of him you will never express him. God is not body, is not figure, is not form; he does not see, does not hear, does not know disorder and perturbation; he is not soul, intelligence, imagination, opinion, thought, word, number, order, size; he is not equality and is not inequality, is not time and is not eternity; he is a will without purpose. Try to understand, Baudolino: God is a lamp without flame, a flame without fire, a fire without heat, a dark light, a silent rumble, a blind flash, a luminous soot, a ray of his own darkness, a circle that expands concentrating on its own center, a solitary simplicity; he is...is... She paused, seeking an example that would convince them both, she the teacher and he the pupil. He is a space that is not, in which you and I are the same thing, as we are today in this time that doesn't flow.

Umberto Eco, Baudolino

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Edwin Louis Cole

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

Kate Beckinsale

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

C.S. Lewis

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

Gwyneth Paltrow

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The basic fear with love is that love is larger than ourselves.

Swami Dhyan Giten

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.

Orson Scott Card