Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Anita Hill

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Alexander Pope

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Christopher Columbus

Before you decide if someone is beautiful close your eyes and listen.

Evette Carter

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ernest Dimnet

? ausm?gi daudz taisn?bu. Nojukt var, ja nav sav?j?s.

Imants Ziedonis

The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

Max Born

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Honore de Balzac

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo DaVinci

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz