Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

Alison Bechdel

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Steve Berry

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

William Shakespeare

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Leon Trotsky

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

Fay Wray

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist?...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

Thomas Jefferson

A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was about where his next meal was coming from.In fact Lancre's position and climate bred a hard-headed and straightforward people who often excelled in the world down below. it had supplied the planins with many of their greatest wizards and witches and, once again, the philospher might have marveled that such a four-square people could give the world so many successful magical practitioners, being quite unaware that only those with their feet on rock can build castles in the air.

Terry Pratchett

A word to the wise is enough

Benjamin Franklin

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

H. L. Mencken

We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.

Ivan Urlaub