Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Karl Kraus

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Rush Limbaugh

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Walter Cronkite

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Mark Twain

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

Cassandra Clare

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Phil Ochs

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

Stephen King

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort