I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

Antoine De SaintExupery

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

Eric Stoltz

The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

Virginia Woolf

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

Erwin Schrodinger

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.

Joseph Addison

Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

William Arthur Ward

Far from the madding crowd

Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Don Knuth

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Helmut Jahn

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love

Buddha