You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severi

The particular thing about science is to combine that with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.

Max Delbruck

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Berg?re and looks at the audience.

Bishop Mervyn Stockwood

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Samuel Butler

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann von Goethe

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'What's that?'I...trust you.'Why?'You'll never hurt me.'Thank you.'But...'But, what?'I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.

Avi

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Bobby Ray Inman

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

Kalpana Chawla

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Oprah Winfrey

Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.

Oscar Wilde