There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

George Bernard Shaw

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

Isabel Allende

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Chad Hugo

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

David Giuntoli

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

H. L. Mencken

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens.

Yvon Chouinard

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.

Oscar Wilde