You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.

The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H. P. Lovecraft

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Edward F. Halifax

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Les Brown

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Charles Dickens

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

Richard Yates

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

Amber Tamblyn

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

I received free health care.

J. K. Rowling

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Dean Koontz