Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.

To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, You may live with me, but don't become my follower. Whom, then, shall I follow? No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Anthony de Mello

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

T. S. Eliot

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

Benicio Del Toro

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

Bo Bennett

On vanity: The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

Blaise Pascal

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Joyce Meyer

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Herbert Simon

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Bradbury

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Bryan Ferry

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Andrew Weil

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky