Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive -- and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, ch.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll still be the worst single president they've ever had until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you...You don't get to make a difference. You don't get to do jack shit. You know what you get?...You get an entry in the history book, and every 15 minutes, every day at Disneyworld, an animatronic puppet wearing your face will wave or nod when the spotlight hits it.

Neil Gaiman

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

Friedrich Nietzsche

We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?

Benjamin Jowett

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Sherwin B. Nuland

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

Russell Simmons

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Clint Eastwood

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

Failure is a steppingstone to poverty, Cosmic Ordering is an elevator to success.

Stephen Richards

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

Kazuo Ishiguro