The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Walter Benjamin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Pablo Picasso

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Lucy Stone

Every experience makes you a man.

Eric Cantona

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Billy Wilder

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Tom Brady

As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as alive as the kangaroo that'd just hopped away.

Terry Pratchett

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Torquato Tasso