Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.

John Keats

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Tiger Woods

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.

Cory Doctorow

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V. S. Naipaul

The truth is that, from the immense spectacle of the world, each novelists retains the one adventure which enable shim to give expression to his own essential self, just as the painter sees in nature only pictures painted in his manner.

Andre Maurois

The human imagination...has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

John Berger, The Soul and the Op

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

John Zimmerman

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

Truman Capote

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Bernard Williams