Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edward W. Howe

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Guy Debord

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Ernest Hemingway

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

Suzanne Farrell

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Mark Twain

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Alexander Maclaren

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed