It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
Hilary Mantel
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Irving Stone
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov