When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Jean Cocteau

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Sir Winston Churchill

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Herbert Spencer

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Paul Lockhart

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Robert Collier

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Helmut Jahn

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Lafcadio Hearn

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

Jesse Ventura

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

Angie Stone