Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

Nastassja Kinski

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Steven Wright

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

E. W. Howe

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

Michael Polanyi

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

Victor Hugo

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

Maimonides

We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

James Clerk Maxwell