There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

George Eliot

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Russell Baker

I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, I've had it! I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be.

Anthony Robbins

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

David Lynch

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

William Shakespeare

Education is not so important as people think.

Elizabeth Bowen

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

William Shakespeare

At about the time when the autobiography first appeared I remember reading its opening chapters in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper. They made a good impression on me, which Gandhi himself at that time did not.

George Orwell

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest o

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Karl Barth