When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Thomas Wolfe

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

Gabriela Sabatini

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Lisa Loeb

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Christopher Morley

Capitalism is war socialism is peace.

Karl Liebknecht

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

George Orwell

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope