Michael Marshall Smith Quote

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...

There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the change, be the difference, or be the inspiration. Shine your light as an example. The world needs mor...

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.