Julian Barnes Quote

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...

The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Love is just a contact of no refusal.

His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men . . . Every Christian is to be a witness