By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.

John C. Granville

Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Marlo Thomas

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Clint Eastwood

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.

Northrop Frye

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Mark Twain

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Milan Kundera

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Clark Moustakas

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again.

Halldór Laxness

Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.

C. Neil Strait

Love is the most mysterious force in the universe.It locks two souls together across space and time.Once that spark is ignited it consumes all else.It was that shard of light that transformed a dark soul forever.Now let that love burn bright like a sun for eternity

Kion Ahadi