If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Oscar Wilde

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Ray Blanton

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

Neil Gaiman

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Our love is an old love, baby. It's older than all our years. I have seen in strange young eyes Familiar tears.

Paul Williams (songwriter)

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Mortimer Collins

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.

Gina Gershon

I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.

Andrew Zimmern

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Michel de Montaigne

I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? A new member added to their happy society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God -- when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain rather than pleasure -- instead of an aid, become an incumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves prudently choose a partial death. In some cases a mangled painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off -- He who plucks out a tooth, parts with it freely since the pain goes with it, and he that quits the whole body, parts at once with all pains and possibilities of pains and diseases it was liable to, or capable of making him suffer.Our friend and we are invited abroad on a party of pleasure -- that is to last forever -- His chair was first ready and he is gone before us -- we could not all conveniently start together, and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and we know where to find him.

Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Eli