The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Remy de Gourmont

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

James A. Michener

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Thomas Sowell

You have to be free to fail in this world.

J.K. Rowling

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.

Oscar Wilde

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

Jeff Daniels

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Anton Chekhov

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card