There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Orson Scott Card

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

Eric Gill

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Evelle Younger

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Franz Kafka

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

Sheri S. Tepper

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.

Josef Pieper

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Joseph Addison

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Mark Burnett

The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.

David Herbert Lawrence