You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Henry Miller

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Jean Cocteau

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

Entitle us to the Liberty of proving the Truth of the Papers, which in the Information are called false, malicious, seditious and scandalous.

John Peter Zenger

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

Will Foley

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Friedrich Nietzsche

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Gunther Grass

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan