"The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind."

“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”

“I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.”

“Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.”

“Race determines everything in the criminal justice system”

Source : "Exclusive: Juror pushes for new laws following Zimmerman trial" By Josh Levs. Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. July 18, 2013.

“The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.”

“All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.”

“Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.”

Source : John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

“One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.”