Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Ernest Hemingway

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Mike Shinoda

Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired only by my own shortcomings.

John Steinbeck, Travels With Cha

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

Helen Keller

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam

John Milton

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Wallace Stevens

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Emily Post

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

Besides, I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Jane Austen

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch