I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

...and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.Because he loved her.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

I don't die in anything!

Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

And that is why I hate dogs." " . . . woof." --Sebastian and Ceiel