Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.