"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Hero Quotes

“Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.”
“Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.”
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.”
“A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.”
“See it first in your mind, then become it.”
“Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.”
“What are we doing here, that is the question.”
“I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal" interview, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2008.

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