"He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and complexion: he embraced the old statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty."

“When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.”

“Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.”

“But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.”

Source : Jean Plaidy (2010). “The Captive of Kensington Palace: (Queen Victoria)”, p.76, Random House

“Insanity is just a state of mind.”

“In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being”

“So, how come Jacob Black gets to give you a gift and I don't? Because I have nothing to give back to you. Bella, you give me everything just by breathing.”

“One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.60, Basic Books

“There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before.”