Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle

Reviewers...must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.

Walter Kerr, Statement quoted in

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the

Justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Billy Wilder

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

The most important thing in life is the path to perfection, and what kind of perfection can exist if a person is proud and satisfied with himself?

Leo Tolstoy

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

Francesca Annis

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Empedocles