A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton

Money is a needful and precious thing,

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Abbie Hoffman

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Rabindranath Tagore

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Les Claypool

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

Bruce Jenner

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Baltasar Gracian

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Maria Sharapova

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Sir William Temple