At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering...
Muller: [interrogating Caravaggio] Look here, for every name you give me, I'll let you keep a finger. You give me something, and you'll keep something. Caravaggio: Don't cut me. Muller: Are thumbs fingers? [to Lieutenant] Muller: Ist ein Daumen ein F...
William of Baskerville: [after finding the secret room of books in the tower] How many more rooms? Ah! How many more books? No one should be forbidden to consult these books freely. Adso of Melk: Perhaps they are thought to be too precious, too fragi...
Didn’t I stand there once, white-knuckled, gripping the just-lit taper, swearing I’d never go back? And hadn’t you kissed the rain from my mouth? And weren’t we gentle and awed and afraid, knowing we’d stepped from the room of desire into t...
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.
I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
A woman's gifts will make room for her.
No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.
Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
Service is providing what's wanted, not what I'd like to give.
Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.
... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
