No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.

Kurt Vonnegut

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Bhagavad Gita

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida, Ac

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Alveda King

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

Joseph Smith Jr.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?

Duke of Alba Ferdinand Alvarez D

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Groucho Marx

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson