Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

James A. Froude

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

Dean Koontz

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

Charles Horace Mayo

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.

Ewan McGregor

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

Thomas Jefferson

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Emma Watson

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

John Green

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Albert Camus

Everything transitory is but an image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

Mark Hoppus