The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Miguel de Cervantes

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao Tzu

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Oscar Wilde

All I can tell you is to have the relationship that's good for you.

Cath Crowley

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Henry Watton

Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but now I can recite it: Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Mitch Albom

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Sir Walter Raleigh

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom