When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth.

John Soos

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

Steve Backley

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, (attributed

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Source Unknown

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin

Thomas Jefferson

Honey, I forgot to duck.

Ronald Reagan

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave

Andrew Fletcher, WorksLetters to

I have loved badly, loved the greatToo soon, withdrawn my words too late;And eaten in an echoing hallAlone and from a chipped plateThe words that I withdrew too late.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Jarvis Cocker

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

Lee Child

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

John Ruskin