I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

Yuri Milner

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that t

C.S. Lewis

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold S. Kushner

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Herbert Read

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Christina Ricci

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Louis Bromfield

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Michel de Montaigne

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.

Italo Calvino

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Ricardo Montalban

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Anne Bronte

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Bruce Jackson