The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Samuel Butler

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

William Shakespeare

The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

John Steinbeck

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Tennessee Williams

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural size, certain truths must be strained in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Joseph Roux

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Hermann Broch

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

John Lennon