Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Arthur Schwartz

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

Alphonsus Liguori

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

T. S. Eliot

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Jose Narosky

Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

Meister Eckhart

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

Charles Dickens

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Boris Pasternak

Most smiles are started by another smile.

Frank A. Clark

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

John Keegan

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

E. B. White

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan