If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.

[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning...

Companies don't succeed, people do. Companies don't fail, people do.

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of...

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.

We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

We didn't have time to get you an actual haircut, she said. Seriously, did you do it yourself? Maybe without a mirror?I put a hand up to my head self-consciously and said, I had some help from the Gen...

There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their cl...

Looking down, she became aware of the water, which was covered with a film of calcinous hard-water particles of dirt and soap, and of the body that was sitting in it, somehow no longer quite her own....

If you like someone, you should have to make an effort.

If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too? - Lucien Vanserra

I don’t expect you to take me back, but I needed to come here and tell you how sorry I am. I needed to tell you how much I love you, Gavin. How much I need you in my life.