I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Jodi Picoult

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

John Green

[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That thing was that a woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around ...

Brigid Pasulka

Some of us enjoy with today, some with future and some other with past.

Shayne Azad

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Henry David Thoreau

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

Ray Romano

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

Sergio Leone

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

W. Somerset Maugham