Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate, because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

George S. Patton

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Laurence Sterne

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Jodi Picoult

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Cathy Guisewite

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.

Kahlil Gibran

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Denzel Washington

Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Margaret Fuller

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

Catherynne M. Valente

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.

Walter Isaacson