Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

Cassandra Clare

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, letter t

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Plato

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Sigmund Freud

What happens if a car comes? We die.

Nicholas Sparks

Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

Source Unknown

Science is universal. Technology must be local.

Narendra Modi

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

J. K. Rowling

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

June Jordan

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Marston Bates

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

Scott McClellan