The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Rose Macaulay

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Samuel Butler

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

Craig Ferguson

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Susan Sontag

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Charles H. Parkhurst

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

Cherrie Moraga

And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.

J.K. Rowling

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Alice Meynell

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Aldous Huxley

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Dave Eggers

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Wayne Dyer

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

Mahatma Gandhi