Hooman Fatoorehchi Assistant Professor School of Chemical Engineering University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Miscellaneous Items Literature/Poetry/Quotations "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." James M. Barrie "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." Lord Byron "Hurt people hurt people." Anonymous "Beauty will save the world." from The Idiot by F. Dostoevsky "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." Oscar Wilde "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost There is nothing that we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, "when your own heart asks ..." from Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo "In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before, defend him." from Bhagavad Gita "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." William Wordsworth "No matter how hard evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of good, because evil is ultimately self-destructive." "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you." Werner Heisenberg