Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

John Milton

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

John Lennon

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

John Cleese

My only hope lies in my despair.

Jean Racine

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

R. W. Dale

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost -- the most legitimate -- passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Marquis de Sade

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Jane Austen

The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Human improvement is from within outward.

James A. Froude

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Samuel Johnson

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong