Despair gives courage to a coward.

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Ray Bradbury

Beauty is always the result of an accident. Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired. It baffles and disgusts. It may even horrify. Once the new habit has been acquired, the accident ceases to be an accident. It becomes classical and loses its shock value.

Jean Cocteau

The worse the conditions of life the more productive the work, always provided you remember the work.

George Gurdjieff

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Johann Georg Hamann

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Nicole Anderson

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Ani DiFranco

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Anon.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

Columba Bush