We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! it seems to say, there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Adam Ferguson

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.

Terry Pratchett

Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.

Ambrose Bierce

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Karl Kraus

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

Paulo Coelho

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

Anthony Robbins

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

C. J. Box

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

Jonathan Sacks

We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can give help to, or get help from, that's part of your obligation.

Bill Murray