Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

David Mitchell

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

Murray Gell-Mann

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Malcolm Bradbury

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Stephen Jay Gould

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, (attributed

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I

Paul Newman, quoted by author of

The poet felt completely free now as he stood there on the deck in his collar and boots, sailing past new and ever newer districts; even if he did not own this land's resources, he owned its beauty.

Halldór Laxness

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Confucius