A friend is a present you give to yourself.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Richard Hughes

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Nadia Comaneci

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Leonardo DaVinci

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Virginia Woolf

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

Bertrand Russell