We are all alike on the inside

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Paul Ricoeur

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Albert Einstein, "The Saturday E

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

Hugh Laurie

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Abraham Cahan

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

James Hansen

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

Willow Shields

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J. J. Abrams

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Diablo Cody