Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Jean Genet

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Christopher Walken

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

Lois Lowry

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Robertson Davies

The ordinary can be like medicine.

Sherman Alexie