I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

J.K. Rowling

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Ken Kesey

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Mark Twain

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

Ray Bradbury

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Publilius Syrus

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Henry David Thoreau

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon