The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Paradise is Where I Am.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.

Stephen Richards

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Whitfield Diffie

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

Susan Hampshire

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Calvin Coolidge

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Cardinal J. Newman

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Jack Prelutsky

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

Rowan Williams

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

Melissa Rosenberg

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

Anthony Trollope