The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

Demetri Martin

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

Neil Gaiman

That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.

Jerry Seinfeld

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Ramakrishna

Every country has the government it deserves.

Joseph De Maistre

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Salman Rushdie

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government Economic policies will work.

W. Allen Wallis

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Robert McChesney

Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

Bernd Heinrich

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Johnny Weissmuller