"Numerical precision is the very soul of science."

“He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.”

“The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

“That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.”

“I would never disrespect anyone.”

Source : "'Bachelor' anti-gay remark doesn't speak for Latinos" by Ruben Navarrette, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2014.

“You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2011). “Wolves of the Beyond”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

“Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2012). “Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

“Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?”

Source : Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

“Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.”