If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

Hu Jintao

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Gloria Steinem

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Queen Elizabeth II

The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

Milan Kundera

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ivern Ball

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.

Philip Roth

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

William Golding

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

Christine Gregoire

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci