I just thank God for all of the blessings.

I'm a terrible salesman, he finally said. I always tell the truth about what I'm selling, and then nobody buys it.

Orson Scott Card

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Sherwood Anderson

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Audre Lorde

Every eye sees its own special vision, every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong. Stranger fiends hide here in human guise than reside in the valleys of Hell. But goodness, kindness and love arise in the heart of the poor beast, as well.

Dean Koontz, The Book of Counted

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Bernard Berenson

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Felix Frankfurter

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Lewis Thomas