The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein

How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment; I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

William Feather

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

Robert Emmet

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Zora Neale Hurston

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

Arthur Conan Doyle

To brighten humanity.We must constantly give the gift that everyone really wants...Love

Timothy Pina

Our life is but a dark and stormy night, To which sense yields a weak and glimmering light, While wandering Man thinks he discerneth all By that which makes him but mistake and fall.

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herber