I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart

Kahlil Gibran

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Salvador Dali

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

Joseph Lancaster

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life

Marcus Aurelius

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Brian May

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Richard Powers

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

John Gray

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Sam Rayburn

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

Karl Jaspers

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

Tony Kushner

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thomas Carlyle

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold