We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

David Herbert Lawrence

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Martin Zimet

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

David Suzuki

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Caleb Colton

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Louisa May Alcott

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

Wilbur Smith

If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.

Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise o

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Mick Jagger

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Henry David Thoreau