The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

George Orwell

I don't need faith.

Maurice Sendak

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Johann G. Seume

I think I have always had a little humor.

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

Tori Spelling

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

William Shenstone

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Publilius Syrus

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

George Orwell, "Horizon", April,

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

Oscar Wilde

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Walter Anderson