In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. - J. F. Kennedy

I do not believe, I know. - Carl Gustav Jung

Some of you say, joy is greater than sorrow, and others say, nay, sorrow is greater. But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. - Kahlil Gibran

Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered. - W. H. Auden

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness. - Kahlil Gibran

Private faces in public places are wiser and nicer than public faces in private places. - W. H. Auden

Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. - Bible: St Mark

There is a great deal of difference between still believing something, and again believing it. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To betray, you must first belong. - Kim Philby

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who donot know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Kahlil Gibran