It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Kahlil Gibran, "The Captive King

He was a handsome man, not in the way of mercurial Cesare or the false angel, Morozzi, but with a calm steadiness that sat well upon him and shown in everything he did. The creations he drew from fire and air were possessed of great delicacy, but I was coming to realize that the man himself was as an oak, unshakable in the greatest storm.

Sara Poole

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

John Grisham

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Proverb

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

Source Unknown

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application.

Warren Earl Burger, Frazier v. U

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

R. Lee Ermey

I told my dentist I want a tooth to match the others. He gave my one with four cavities.

Rodney Dangerfield

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell