Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Frank Gaines

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Source Unknown

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey, The Quest for Certai

This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.

LouisFerdinand Celine

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

Yann Martel

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

Jodi Picoult

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

Samuel Johnson

As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

Jay-Z

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Max Eastman

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge