Marie Curie is of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

William Shakespeare

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Jeff Goodell

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

Neil Gaiman

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

William James

Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

Pir Vilayat Khan

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

H. L. Mencken

Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Honore de Balzac

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

Joycelyn Elders