It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me. A disenchantment falsified and blunted my usual feelings and joys: the garden lacked fragrance, the woods held no attraction for me, the world stood around me like a clearance sale of last year's secondhand goods, insipid, all its charm gone. Books were so much paper, music a grating noise. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits.

Hermann Hesse, Demian, 1918

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.

Paul Erdman

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Lee Salk

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Charlemagne

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty

Samuel Johnson

The law is reason free from passion

Aristotle

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

John Paul Warren

?There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. ?

Stephen King

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

Rita Rudner

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Friedrich von Schiller

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha