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“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”
Source : "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, 2002.
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“Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.”
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“If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.”
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“Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.”
Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.424
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“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
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“I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.”
Source : "Crime Novelist Patricia Cornwell on Blood, 'Boundaries' and Her Next Book" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. December 6, 2011. 
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“Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.”
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“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”
Source : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.9, Bantam
