I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

Heinrich Heine

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

Mike Norton

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

John Calvin

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

Luc Montagnier

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

Arthur Henderson

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

John Green

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Ben Okri

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells