The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

History is a science, no more and no less.

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

Meaning can be found in action.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.