The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

David Rockefeller

While we spoke of many things Fools and kings This he said to me: The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return.

Eden Ahbez

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

Chris Colfer

Those people speak most who do not have much to say.

Leo Tolstoy

In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.

Karen Duffy

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Peter Drucker

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

John Hancock

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Steve Wozniak

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Virginia Woolf

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson