I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Alan Thicke

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Joseph Conrad

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short.

Mickey Rooney

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

James Baldwin

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Donald Norman

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

Elizabeth Gilbert