The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

Ted Danson

I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.

Stephen Richards

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

Kurt Loder

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Tom T. Hall

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

J.K. Rowling

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Oscar Wilde

I love awards, especially if I get them.

Ben Gazzara

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Terry Pratchett

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Freddy Adu

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer