Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Douglas Adams

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Edward Norton

An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

Oscar Levant

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Margaret Thatcher

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Virginia Woolf

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.

Ray Bradbury

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I'm yours, Kiera, for as long as you want me

S.C. Stephens