It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I mean, what does it mean to you? In your head? Dream: Well, I use it to refer that area of existence over which I exert a certain amount of control or influence. In my case, the realm and action of dreaming. Delirium: Hump. It's more than that. The things we do make echoes. S'pose, f'rinstance, you stop on a street corner and admire a brilliant fork of lightning--ZAP! Well for ages after people and things will stop on that very same corner, stare up at the sky. They wouldn't even know what they were looking for. Some of them might see a ghost bolt of lightning in the street. Some of them might even be killed by it. Our existence deforms the universe. THAT'S responsibility.

Neil Gaiman

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Jane Austen

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Arabic Proverb

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.

Muriel Barbery

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Lois Horowitz

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

Michael Jordan

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.

James Baldwin

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Aristotle

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Victor Hugo

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Georges Danton