Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Kevin Kelly

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

D. T. Niles

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Coretta Scott King

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

Len Wein

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Bill Cosby

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Mamie Sypert Burns

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Tom Robbins

To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.

Edmund Cooper

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

George R.R. Martin

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.

Dorothy Day

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.

Richard Byrd