Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

Jean Pigozzi

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

Duty is ours; consequences our God's.

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jack

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

How much do I love that noble man More than I could tell with words I fear though he'll remain alone With a holy halo of his own.

Albert Einstein

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Neal A. Maxwell

Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Nothing is as unpopular as the truth.

Steve Maraboli

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Sophocles

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Tony Hillerman

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.

Destiny Booze