Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Søren Kierkegaard

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

John Keats

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

Eliot Engel

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Samuel Richardson

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Thomas Jefferson

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.

Richard E. Grant

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

Stephen King

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Brit Marling

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Bono

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Thich Nhat Hanh