The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Things are seldom what they seem.

W. S. Gilbert

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Max Beerbohm

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or lesser degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may an

Thomas Jefferson

You get to the point in your life where everything isn't black and white and good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. Now, you might not like that. You might think me very cynical about that. Well f--- it; I don't care what you think.

Roy McDonald

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, There are no answers.

Ray Bradbury

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

Kyle Schmid

So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

Stephen King

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

Anthony Holden

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Carter G. Woodson

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Joe L. Wheeler

They succeed, because they think they can.

Virgil