"The fears we don’t face become our limits."

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.263, Hachette UK

“One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.”

“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”

Source : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“Consumption never creates wealth.”

“It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.”

“If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.”

“I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.”

“Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.”

Source : Ernst Mach (2012). “Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media