Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Stephen King

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

Henry A. Wallace

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Elizabeth I

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

Edwin P. Whipple

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Marcus Aurelius

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Ted Turner

If justice is removed... the great, the immense fabric of human society...must in a moment crumble into atoms.

Adam Smith

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Sophocles

Tough times never last but tough people do.

John Thomas "Spider" Salley

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

Jon Heder

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Henry David Thoreau