Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

John Milton

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Benjamin Spock

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, The U

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Charles V

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

John Morley

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Terry Hands

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

George Porter

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Tom Hiddleston

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Respond; don't react.Listen; don't talk.Think; don't assume.

Raji Lukkoor

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

Laurence Tribe