People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Matthew Arnold

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

Josh Lucas

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C. Clarke

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Wm. Paul Young

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Ernest Hemingway

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter Stuyvesant

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Shahrukh Khan

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Ethan Hawke

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Theodore Roosevelt

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

Sean Parker