It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Plato

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Barney Oliver

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Chris Kraus

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

C.S. Lewis

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Jane Austen

In every bush lies a nest.

Kensington Roth

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always kept one end in view, namely . . . to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Richard Pryor