Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity, what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.

I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with a man. She could hold her own. I really loved her.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.