What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.

Stephen Richards

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w

Ernest Hemingway

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Stanislav Grof

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Eric Allenbaugh

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

William Shakespeare

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Michael Moore

Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Samuel Johnson

Because paper has more patience than people.

Anne Frank