Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...

Thornton Wilder

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Meister Eckhart

Clary: What are you doing here, anyway?Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but-Clary: I'm going to bed.

Cassandra Clare

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time

Virginia Woolf

What we call life is only talk of nature.

Dejan Stojanovic

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

G. K. Chesterton

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

George J. Mitchell

The great thing is the start -- to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer -- and him for nothing.

Robert Collier

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

Dame Ethel Smyth

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Katie Ledecky

America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do?

Source Unknown

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer