Everything done in the world is done by hope.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Eric Hoffer

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Terry Pratchett

It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.

Kurt Vonnegut

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Tyrone Power

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Sir John Vanbrugh

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

Stephen King

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.

Mark Twain

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Brendan Behan

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson