In the present state of our knowledge it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is however sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it and an essential property of matter?

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor and the proper fondness for his mother.

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

Man is properly speaking based upon hope he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.