To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.

Joan Jett

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Madame de Girardin

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

B. W. Powe

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.

Brian Hwang

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Jon Bon Jovi

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

C.S. Lewis

If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.

Santosh Kalwar

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.

Earl Riney