In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Patrick Ness

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

Steve Maraboli

I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

Veronica Roth

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

William Masters

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Alfred A. Montapert

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Grant M. Bright

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

Albert Camus

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Walter Pater

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

William J. Clinton

When I say, I love you, it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

Joss Whedon

The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.

Gregor Golob