I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

LaoTzu

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

James Russell Lowell

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Swami Vivekananda

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

H. L. Hunt

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

George Orwell

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Rickey Henderson

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

Joel Hodgson

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

Melissa Rosenberg

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Mason Cooley