Humility is no substitute for a good personality. , Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 )
Most joyful the Poet beIt is through him that all men see., William E. Channing,
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound., Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking., Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian television actor (1954 )
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities potential mass forces vectoring in a curved geometry that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics., Gregory Benford Timescape,
Man is the artificer of his own happiness., Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21 1838, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)