The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Oscar Wilde

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

Al Lewis

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Franz Liszt

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Charles Montesquieu

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Howard Zinn

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The very presence of guilt, let alone its tenacity, implies imbalance: Something, we suspect, is getting more of our energy than warrants, at the expense of something else, we suspect, that deserves more of our energy than we

Melinda M. Marshall, Good Enough

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Ted Turner

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Jean Genet

Why are there five syllables in the word monosyllabic?

Steven Wright

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield