Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Ben Becht

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Margaret Cavendish

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Kenny G

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

Charles Darwin

Never compromise your values.

Steve Maraboli

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Walter Benjamin

The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.

American Indian Proverb, Southwe

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer. Because it's the only apprenticeship we have. It's the only way of learning how to write a story.

John Green

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Courtney Thorne Smith

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet

Mark Twain