“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Moreover the wealthy may have pity beyond right on the needy that befriended them when they were in want.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“to accuse, requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution more resembles justice.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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